Hulkenberg: Underachiever or wasted talent?
Dropped by the first manufacturer team to put its faith in him as its leader and with his podium-less record getting ever longer, Nico Hulkenberg is beginning to look like an underachiever. But do the statistics do him an injustice?
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Nico Hulkenberg's tagline might as well be 'the driver with the most Formula 1 starts without a podium finish', so often is that statistic referenced.
Frequently, it's used against him, with his 170 races without cracking the top three proof of his inadequacies as a driver. No wonder Renault dropped him, right?
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