Nico Hulkenburg has remained silent over the current F1 gossip of a possible move to Ferrari for 2013.
Rumours began to spread from insiders, saying that the German had already
signed a contract to replace Felipe Massa at the legendary squad, but
the current Force India racer has insisted that his 2013 plans are still not decided.
Speaking ahead of this weekends Japanese Grand Prix at the Suzuka track, the 25-year-old said “I’m just concentrating on my job here and that’s all for now, if you do a good job, we’ve seen it with Sergio (Perez), things can happen. Journalists put you into various seats but it’s all hypothetical.”
He then admitted that Hamilton’s move to Mercedes and Perez switching to McLaren has let the driver market move forward and open up new possibilities, saying “Obviously there has been quite a lot of movement last week and obviously we all know that, there is still lots of speculation out there but all I can say is that for my future nothing has been announced yet. We have to wait a bit more. There are talks with this team (Force India). There is still a chance that I will race here, but I think with the movement that there has been last week, things happened.”
He also illustrated his surprise at the big driver market news. “Obviously it has been big news,” he said. “I don’t follow the driver market situation every day like you guys do so a little bit of a surprise there yes, but it doesn’t affect me initially.” He was also asked if, after 2 full years of racing, he felt ready for a move up the grid, and replied saying “Yep”.
But would Ferrari sign a driver who has competed in 2 more races in comparison to Perez. Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo revealed that Perez was too inexperienced for a drive at the famous red team, so if they did sign Hulkenberg would it be because of the loss of Perez? We will have to see how this story develops.
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Speaking ahead of this weekends Japanese Grand Prix at the Suzuka track, the 25-year-old said “I’m just concentrating on my job here and that’s all for now, if you do a good job, we’ve seen it with Sergio (Perez), things can happen. Journalists put you into various seats but it’s all hypothetical.”
He then admitted that Hamilton’s move to Mercedes and Perez switching to McLaren has let the driver market move forward and open up new possibilities, saying “Obviously there has been quite a lot of movement last week and obviously we all know that, there is still lots of speculation out there but all I can say is that for my future nothing has been announced yet. We have to wait a bit more. There are talks with this team (Force India). There is still a chance that I will race here, but I think with the movement that there has been last week, things happened.”
He also illustrated his surprise at the big driver market news. “Obviously it has been big news,” he said. “I don’t follow the driver market situation every day like you guys do so a little bit of a surprise there yes, but it doesn’t affect me initially.” He was also asked if, after 2 full years of racing, he felt ready for a move up the grid, and replied saying “Yep”.
But would Ferrari sign a driver who has competed in 2 more races in comparison to Perez. Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo revealed that Perez was too inexperienced for a drive at the famous red team, so if they did sign Hulkenberg would it be because of the loss of Perez? We will have to see how this story develops.
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