How Hulkenberg tamed the Silverstone rain to finally claim that well-deserved podium

It was good to lastly see Nico Hulkenberg get that long-awaited podium at Silverstone. I do know first-hand how gifted he’s, having been aware of a 12 months’s value of information on the opposite aspect of the storage after we had been crew mates at Renault in 2017.

For somebody nearly as good as Nico to want 239 races to finish up on the rostrum is staggering, however he used all of his pace and nouse to transform the unlikeliest of possibilities on Sunday.

Hulkenberg was a first-year GP2 champion, profitable the feeder class in 2009, which launched him on the trail into Components 1. It appeared inevitable in some unspecified time in the future he would find yourself in a prime Components 1 seat, however one way or the other that probability has by no means come.