01 HULK TAKES THE MICK
Schumacher out at Haas
02 BINOTTO BINNED OFF
Ferrari team principal calls it quits
03 CHINA CRISIS
Shanghai off again
01 HULK TO HAAS, MICK TO MERC?
Securing a return to Formula 1 after a season-long break (let alone several seasons) is thought to be difficult. Doing it twice is extraordinary. And yet, the Haas line-up for 2023 will consist of two drivers who have both lost their full-time F1 rides twice but managed to come back. Kevin Magnussen, who spent the 2015 season on the sidelines after his debut season with McLaren, and then later missed the 2021 season as well, will be joined by Nico Hülkenberg. The German also found himself without an F1 seat after a single season with Williams in 2010, but then returned to race for several years with Sauber, Force India and Renault, until the latter eventually replaced him with Esteban Ocon. From 2020 on Hülkenberg was a reserve driver for Racing Point and then Aston Martin, and now he is back on the grid.
Reports that Hülkenberg had emerged as a
