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Guenther Steiner has explained that Haas have elected for a "well-seasoned" line-up for the 2023. The American F1 team chose to hire Nico Hulkenberg as their second driver for the 2023 season, partnering Kevin Magnussen. Their decision is a change in tactic from recent seasons, having elected to field two rookies in 2021: Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin. Crash damage and an inability to keep up with Magnussen's points total resulted in early-season pressure from Haas on Schumacher, with the 23-year-old failing to make the grade for a third year with the team. Viewed by others: Nico Hulkenberg Hulkenberg secures final seat, full F1 2023 driver line-up confirmed ...

Jolyon Palmer has provided an insight into his conversations with Nico Hulkenberg , ahead of his announcement at the Haas F1 team. Ex-F1 driver Palmer claims that Hulkenberg 'thought he was done' in Formula 1, after a period of uncertainty around his F1 future. Hulkenberg had been rumoured to be a candidate for the second Haas seat for much of the season, but endured a frustrating wait for confirmation as Mick Schumacher fought to retain his seat. Speaking prior to the Brazilian Grand Prix, Palmer, who raced alongside Hulkenberg at Renault in 2017, gave an early indicator about Haas' 2023 line-up. "I think there's going to be a ' Jolyon Palmer teammates' reunion done at Haas [with] Kevin Magnussen and Nico Hulkenberg together for next year," Palmer said on the F1 Nation podcast. "They famously didn't like each other at the time, but it seems like they do now, so Guenther [Steiner] will be pleased about that." ...

Nico Hulkenberg has revealed when he contacted Haas to drive for the team in Formula 1 for 2023. The German, who has been out of a full-time drive since 2019, has been in a reserve role with Aston Martin for the last two years. He will now replace Mick Schumacher after the team opted to go for a more experienced driver line-up for next season, with Hulkenberg revealing when he first contacted the Haas Team Principal. "I called Guenther [Steiner] in summertime," said Hulkenberg to media, including TheFOXposts.Com . "The hunger to race, the fire to be in F1 , the pinnacle of motorsport. It's a pretty cool environment and what I what I love doing, and probably what I'm best at." Following his departure from Renault, Hulkenberg still had race outings with Racing Point and latterly Aston Martin after Sergio Perez and Sebastian Vettel contracted Covid. Even after leaving F1 briefly, he says that he never gave up on trying to get a seat for the f...

Nico Hulkenberg admits that the physical challenge of his return to F1 at post-season testing was " tough ". The German will return to the grid in 2023 with Haas, having last raced full-time in the sport for the Renault team back in 2019, though he has since made substitute appearances in 2020 and 2021 for drivers forced to miss races due to COVID-19. Ahead of his comeback, Hulkenberg got behind the wheel in Abu Dhabi for a test held just two days after the 2022 season finale. He ended the day with 110 laps under his belt, and claimed the 19th fastest time on the timesheets of the 24 drivers to have taken part. Hulkenberg achieved 'target' in test Hulkenberg was left feeling positive after his experience at testing. "Good days of work, good days of running," the 35-year-old told media, including TheFOXposts.Com . "[We] collected many impressions, a...

Kevin Magnussen feels that Nico Hulkenberg 's arrival at Haas in 2023 will be "great" for the team, despite having had an infamous falling-out with the German in the past. Magnussen and Hulkenberg shared a memorable exchange in the media pen following the 2017 Hungarian Grand Prix, where Magnussen issued an explicit response to Hulkenberg's accusation that he was "the most unsporting driver on the grid". However, the pair appear to have cleared the air in the time since and Magnussen is welcoming the prospect of working with Hulkenberg, who will replace Mick Schumacher at the squad. Magnussen: Hulkenberg will be great for the team "I'm really looking forward to working with Nico," Magnussen told media, including TheFOXposts.Com , after the season-closing Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. "I think he is going to be great for the team, with all his expe...

Nico Hulkenberg has revealed how he " broke the ice" with new Formula 1 teammate Kevin Magnussen by repeating his own words back to him. Hulkenberg is to replace Mick Schumacher at Haas in 2023 and drive alongside Magnussen as he returns to full-time Grand Prix racing for the first time since 2019. The two had an infamous incident at the 2017 Hungarian Grand Prix, where Magnussen pushed Hulkenberg's Renault wide through Turns 2 and 3. In the media pen post-race, Hulkenberg confronted Magnussen who retorted that the German should "suck my b***s". Magnussen has been adamant that he has no problems with Hulkenberg joining the team, whilst the German says he greeted his new teammate with the same words used in Budapest earlier in 2022. Hulkenberg greets Magnussen "Of course, I expect to have a good relationship with him," Hulkenberg told media, includi...

If you ride onboard with any driver on the F1 TV app, you'll often hear engineers acting as 'spotters' as they tell them the gap to other cars on track. This is to ensure they can build up enough space before a lap so they do not encounter traffic, while also staying out of the way of drivers who are on a hot lap as the closing speeds can be quite fast. When FP1 in Melbourne was red flagged due to an issue with the GPS tracker, teams and drivers were effectively in the dark. What ensured was chaos as those on a hot lap encountered traffic, with Zhou Guanyu having to thread his way through a slow-moving Red Bull and Aston Martin at the penultimate corner. "Seemed like everyone was blindfolded once that GPS system went out," said Kevin Magnussen to media, including TheFOXposts.Com . "We know that we are relying on our engineers to tell us where the traffic is and I don't think everyone knew that the GPS system was out. "So when you don...

Several F1 drivers have suggested that the amount of free practice time during a Grand Prix weekend could be reduced. In addition to Qualifying and the Grand Prix itself, a typical F1 race weekend also features three one-hour practice sessions, allowing drivers and teams to fine-tune their cars and run through different simulation programmes ahead of the competitive action. F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali created a stir last month by suggesting that he would prefer to eliminate all free practice sessions from a Grand Prix. Though he later clarified his comments and ruled out scrapping free practice entirely, the Italian said it would be wrong not to consider ways of changing the race weekend format in order to continue to engage the sport's growing audience. Asked about possible alterations to the running order, several drivers told media, including TheFOXposts.Com , that the amount of practice time during a weekend could be reduced. Viewed by others: ...

Nico Hulkenberg admits that he had a "code brown " moment after narrowly avoiding the stricken Williams of Alex Albon in the Australian Grand Prix. Albon suffered a high-speed spin on Lap 7 of the event, causing his car to roll back onto the track following contact with the barriers. Pierre Gasly and Hulkenberg were the first to encounter Albon's FW45, leaving Hulkenberg reeling from having to take avoiding action at full speed. "Holy moly, I mean seriously I had a code brown in that moment," Hulkenberg told media, including TheFOXposts.Com . Hulkenberg recalls 'seriously scary' moment Reflecting back on the incident after the race, Hulkenberg explained that the lack of visibility added to the shock. "That was seriously scary. I mean, thank God nothing happened. But this is a nightmare scenario," the Haas driver continued. "You've come around a blind corner in a street circuit. I mean, that was seriously sc...

Guenther Steiner says he was not nervous when seeing Kevin Magussen and Nico Hulkenberg getting close while racing each other on track. The two drivers went head-to-head at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, as Magnussen was on his way up the field in an attempt to get the squad's first points of the season. The pair have past History , with Hulkenberg once referring to Magnussen as "the most unsporting driver", which prompted the Dane to comeback with "suck my balls!" Steiner said he was not nervous watching the two drivers, given their History and Haas' previous problems with teammates crashing into each other. "I was not getting nervous or anything because I see them working outside of the car together, so you can imagine if nothing goes completely wrong [that will translate into] what they're doing on the race track," said Steiner to media, including TheFOXposts.Com . "I think they respect each other and they knew that ther...

Guenther Steiner admits that he was surprised by how strongly Nico Hulkenberg performed during the first few races of his Formula 1 comeback. Hulkenberg made his full-time return to the grid with Haas for the 2023 season after three years on the sidelines, a time in which he made several substitute appearances at Racing Point/Aston Martin for drivers forced to miss races due to COVID-19. While Steiner expected Hulkenberg to be strong, the team boss had anticipated that it might take some time before this happened. "For Nico, coming back after three years as a part-time driver, he came back really strong," Steiner told the F1 Nation podcast. "I expected him to be strong, but I expected that form to come a little bit later, so I was quite surprised myself. In the beginning, he was just strong." Hulkenberg 'demanding in a good way' With Hulkenberg's level of performance in 2023 already impressing Steiner, the Italian hopes tha...

Nico Hulkenberg says the Miami International Circuit is "tricky and nasty", after he crashed during FP1. On his first visit to the Miami circuit, the German lost the back end of his Haas at Turn 3 early in the session, slamming backwards into the barriers and causing the first red flag of the weekend. Afterwards, the Haas driver said the paucity of grip afforded by the circuit at that point had contributed to his accident. "A bit unnecessary. Shame that I just wanted a bit too much too soon,” Hulkenberg said of his crash to media, including TheFOXposts.Com . "It was my first time on this track and running wide there at Turn 3 is a little tricky. The crash was luckily not too bad. "It seems like there's one line where the grip is good, and if you go offline a little bit, the grip drops dramatically, and even later in the sessions there's a lot of marbles offline. "It's quite a tricky and nasty track in that sense. Easy to get ...

Along with the 2020 Tuscan and 2021 Saudi Arabian Grands Prix, we can now add Australia 2023 to the list of Formula 1 races with three standing starts. As a relatively straightforward win for Max Verstappen drew ever closer, the race exploded into life with four laps of the 58 to run when Kevin Magnussen tagged the Turn 2 wall, ripping the right rear Pirelli tyre straight off the hub. Owing to tyre and wheel debris, such as metal fragments, the race was red-flagged for a second time following Alexander Albon 's early shunt. The two-lap shootout proved costly for Alpine with both cars wrecked, and then there was subsequent confusion about what the order would be behind Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton. Eventually, the order was taken as it was under the Magnussen red flag, as this was the last time the FIA could categorically create a running order - akin to Great Britain 2022 and the first lap pile-up there. There were some quietly impressive performances in Melbourne -...

Nico Hulkenberg says his full-time break from racing in Formula 1 has given him a "changed perspective" as he prepares to return with Haas in 2023. Hulkenberg replaced Mick Schumacher at Haas to secure a permanent return to Grand Prix racing after losing his Renault seat at the end of 2019. The German has been a reserve driver for Racing Point and Aston Martin since 2020, subbing in for the COVID-stricken Sergio Perez, Lance Stroll and Sebastian Vettel at times. However, given Haas's desire to develop into solid midfield contenders, boss Guenther Steiner felt he was a better option than retaining incumbent Schumacher alongside Kevin Magnussen. Hulkenberg at 35 years old believes that he is now in a better place having had time to reflect since leaving Renault. © Haas F1 ...