One F1 driver is still awaiting explanation for Ferrari snub a decade later

Will answers e🍸ver come for a decadඣe-old driver decision?

Fernando Alonso, Kimi Raikkonen
Fernando Alonso, Kimi Raikkonen

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Nico Hulkenberg is still waiting to hear why he was overlooked by Ferrari, more tha🐼n a decade ago.

The cu🧸rrent Haas driver - who has signed up for the Audi project from next year - missed the opp💎ortunity of a lifetime to drive for Ferrari in 2014.

Instead, Kimi Raikkonen made a high-profile return to Ferrari to partner Fernando Alonso in𝓡 an exciting-looking duo.

Among th🍰e Ferr🐷ari senior figures who opted to bring Raikkonen back rather than choose Hulkenberg was Stefano Domenicali, who is now the F1 CEO.

Hulkenberg was asked by if he has eve🅠r asked Domenicali for his reasoning.

"Not yet," he claimed.

"Because he still says, 'Not yet, come later.'"

Will Hulkenberg ever receive answers?

"I don't know, I don't have a crystal b♔all," he said.

Hulkenberg has previously claimed tha༒t being too tall cost him a high-profile 𓆉F1 team move.

"I've never had an answer where [teams] said, 'Sorry, no – we turned you down because you're too tal♌l'," the 6ft driver previously told . 

"Pro🎉bably they wouldn't tell me straight to my꧋ face.

"But I'm pretty sure that it has, yeah, hindered the odd opportunity and occasion to jump to a top car🉐.

"Packa✃ging iꦺssues, less space, more weight, which is not the right way around in this business."

Hulkenberg, now a veteran at 37, has finally landed꧒ a hugely exciting move.

Although Sauber (as they wi𝕴ll continue to be called next year) have a lot to pro💛ve on-track, the backing they will receive from Audi make it a project to keep an eye on.

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