Notwithstanding holding the Record for the most F1 begins without a platform, Sebastian Vettel accepts Nico Hulkenberg has "outright potential", he was only never in the right vehicle.
The last time Nico Hulkenberg won a solitary seater race was back in 2009, the German taking the GP2 Series title with five race wins. That was additionally the last year he even remained on the platform in single-seater hustling.
Elevated to Formula 1 the next year, he dashed for Williams, Power India, Sauber and Renault throughout the span of nine seasons yet not even once had the amazing chance to shower the celebratory champagne on the platform.
He had a couple of close to misses, at times scattered by misfortune with dependability issues or penetrates, despite the fact that it should be said a couple were through his own effort.
"It damages and it will sting significantly more tomorrow," he said subsequent to crashing while at the same time pursuing down third spot at the 2019 German Grand Prix.
In the wake of losing his Renault drive toward the finish of that season he endorsed with Aston Martin as their hold, challenging four races north of three seasons and scoring 10 focuses.
His time in the shop window implied when Haas needed to supplant Mick Schumacher, the 35-year-old was on their short rundown, Guenther Steiner affirming the German in the development to the season-finishing Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Vettel figures his countryman can finish the work for the American outfit.
"Nico is one of the drivers who has outright potential," Vettel told Formule1.nl.
"Each time he's in the vehicle he's shown that and perhaps he wasn't in the ideal vehicle brilliantly to a great extent.
"That can happen to any of us. It might have happened to me and afterward my vocation could have turned out a piece in an unexpected way."
Nico Hulkenberg's undesirable record
Nico Hulkenberg has arranged on the Formula 1 lattice multiple times yet hasn't overseen anything higher than a fourth-put finish.
He holds the record for the most beginnings without a platform in front of Adrian Sutil, 128, and Pierluigi Martini, 119.
He took the record back in 2017 when he resigned at the Singapore Grand Prix, out with an oil spill. Unexpectedly that was one of the races in which he looked set for a platform before his Renault abandoned him.
Having lost his full-time ride after the 2019 season, it appeared to be that record would be Hulkenberg's for quite a long time - on the off chance that not many years - to come.
Be that as it may, presently set to make his 182nd beginning when the new season starts in Bahrain one year from now, there aren't numerous in the enclosure who might resent the 35-year-old a first platform.
Maybe in 2023 he'll go from most beginnings without a platform to taking Carlos Sainz's record of most beginnings before a first platform. That stands at 101 so a first top-three for Hulkenberg would promise him that record, and doubtlessly into the indefinite future.
