14:08 – Nico Hülkenberg will be responsible for the rest of the Formula 1 weekend at the Nürburgring. The German steps in for the qualification of the Grand Prix of the Eifel as a replacement for the sick Lance Stroll. He will therefore also be responsible for the race. Racing Point team principal Otmar Szafnauer has since confirmed the news.
After a day without F1 action on Friday, the drivers prepared on Saturday morning for the first and also some training of the race weekend. Stroll was the big absentee. The Canadian’s RP20 remained in the pit box and the intended driver did not show himself. After about fifteen minutes, the Racing Point team said in a statement that Stroll was not fit enough to take action.
After that third training session, as the session is still formally called, there would be a new evaluation of Stroll with a view to qualifying. At the same time, plan B was already put into effect. After his raids on Silverstone, plan B listens to the name of Nico Hülkenberg. The German made a very good impression during the second race weekend in England and also knows the Nürburgring well. The right man to get in last-minute.
The Hulk would be around this weekend anyway, but then to do TV work. However, after a negative corona test, the cheerful driver from Emmerik is allowed to enter his third qualifying session in the 2020 Formula 1 season. Hülkenberg will also finish the race a day later. “Lance was not feeling 100 percent this morning and the team has decided not to use him for the rest of this event,” the press release said. “Nico, who previously came in for Sergio Perez, knows our car and the team well and luckily was close, in Cologne.”
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