F1’S LATEST SUPERSUB
On the Thursday morning of the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix weekend, Nico Hulkenberg was sitting at home in Monaco when his mobile phone buzzed into life. It was new Aston Martin team boss Mike Krack with a simple message – Sebastian Vettel has COVID-19 and we need you here, right now.
It was the start of a hectic 11-day adventure for Hulkenberg, who would add two more GP starts as a reserve driver to the two he logged in 2020, further extending an F1 career that began with Williams back in 2010.
The usual procedure for Hulkenberg is that for flyaway races he
