Nico Hülkenberg

Hülkenberg finished his rookie season 3rd in the championship, with four wins and 72 points.

Hülkenberg won the non-championship Masters of Formula 3 race at Zolder from teammate (and F3 Euro Series championship leader) Romain Grosjean after Grosjean stalled at the start.

Nicolas Hülkenberg (, born 19 August 1987) is a German racing driver who drives for the Haas F1 Team in Formula One.

Hülkenberg made his karting debut in 1997, at the age of 10.

In 2002 he was German Junior Karting Champion and the following year he won the German Kart Championship.

Hülkenberg was previously managed by Willi Weber, the long-time manager of Michael Schumacher.

Weber predicted that Hülkenberg would be ready for Formula One by.

He also praised Hülkenberg as an "unbelievable talent" and said he reminded him of Schumacher as a young driver.

He also stated that he nicknamed him "The Hulk", after the fictional superhero, in reference to Hülkenberg changing his personality whilst at the wheel.

He is one of six drivers since 2005 to win the GP2 Series/Formula 2 championship in his debut season.

Hülkenberg made his German Formula BMW debut in 2005, dominating the championship and winning the title comfortably.

He finished first in the Formula BMW world final but was stripped of the win after it was claimed he had brake-tested his rivals during a safety car period.

Hülkenberg also joined the German A1 Grand Prix team for the 2006–07 season.

Nine wins in his rookie season made him the most successful driver in A1GP history.

It meant he almost single-handedly won Germany the championship with 128 points, 35 more than Team New Zealand.

Hülkenberg finished fifth in the German Formula Three Championship (ATS Formel 3 Cup) in 2006.

For 2007 he switched to the Formula 3 Euro Series with the ASM team that had taken Lewis Hamilton and Paul di Resta to the last two championships.

Hülkenberg won the Formula 3 Euro Series championship in 2008.

He amassed 76 of his total of 85 points during the feature races on Saturdays, taking seven wins in the progress.

Hülkenberg made his GP2 Asia Series début for the ART Grand Prix team at the third round of the 2008–09 GP2 Asia Series in Bahrain, where he took pole position at his first attempt.

He finished both races in fourth place and this left him in seventh place in the championship.

His second race weekend in Qatar, saw him become the first night race pole-sitter, and promptly turned that into becoming the first race-winner under lights after a dominant performance.

Such was his performance that he ended up over thirteen seconds clear of second-placed driver Sergio Pérez.

He was the 2009 GP2 Series champion, and is a previous champion of both the Formula 3 Euro Series and A1 Grand Prix, as part of A1 Team Germany.

Outside of Formula One, he won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2015 on his first attempt and also contested two rounds of the 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship season for Porsche.

Hülkenberg graduated to Formula One in with the Williams team.

Despite claiming the first pole position for Williams in more than five years, he was not retained for and joined Force India as a test and reserve driver, being promoted to a race seat with the team for the season.

In he drove for the Sauber team, but returned to Force India for the season.

In October 2016, it was confirmed that he would switch to Renault for.

, Hülkenberg holds the record for the most Formula One career starts without a podium finish, a record he claimed when he failed to finish in his 129th race (the 2017 Singapore Grand Prix) and in so doing passed Adrian Sutil's previous record of 128.

Hülkenberg was born in Emmerich am Rhein, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany to Klaus Dieter and Susanne Hülkenberg.

Dieter Hülkenberg owns a shipping company, Hülkenberg Spedition e. K, based in Emmerich am Rhein.

Hülkenberg trained as a freight forwarding agent at his father's company.

He is fluent in German, Dutch, French and English.

His first win came at the Norisring from 18th on the grid, he won again in the rain at Zandvoort and added a third at the Nürburgring.

But he ran into trouble at Magny-Cours, being penalised in qualifying for passing the chequered flag twice, and crashing into Filip Salaquarda in the race.

He was replaced by Esteban Ocon for the 2020 Formula One season and left without a seat, in turn joining Racing Point as a reserve driver.

In 2020, he drove for Racing Point in three races, following positive COVID tests for both Lance Stroll and Sergio Perez.

He then would drive again in place of Sebastian Vettel at Aston Martin at the first two races of the 2022 season, following Vettel's positive COVID test.

He returned as a full-time driver for the 2023 season, driving for Haas F1 Team.