Nico Hulkenberg believes that it's unlikely he would have been able to make a full-time return to Formula 1 if it hadn't been for his brace of stand-in performances for Aston Martin at the start of 2022. The 35-year-old German driver had made 177 race starts since his debut with Williams in the 2010 Bahrain Grand Prix by the time he bowed out at the end of 2019, having also raced for Force India, Sauber and Renault. Hulkenberg made two mid-season guest appearances in 2020 sitting in for Racing Point drivers Sebastian Vettel and Lance Stroll. And he was back in 2022 when Vettel again came down with COVID before the first race of the season. Read also: Hulkenberg went through tyres 'like a...
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