Hulkenberg has no answer to Renault's Baku problems

Nico Hulkenberg says he doesn't have the answers as to why Renault struggled so much during the Azerbaijan Grand Prix weekend.

From the curtailed FP1 on Friday, the R.S.19 never looked at home on the Baku City street circuit, with both drivers looking ragged under braking in particular.

Teammate Daniel Ricciardo didn't fair much better than Hulkenberg, eventually retiring from the race after sustaining damage in an unusual incident with Daniil Kvyat, the Australian reversing into the Toro Rosso.

After the race, Hulkenberg admitted he didn't fully understand why the French team had struggled to the extent it did.

“It didn’t go very well, obviously. No pace whatsoever, really slow. But I don’t have the fix or the key for it. I felt I was giving it my best effort, and was driving it pretty hard and well," he told Motorsport.com

“But if you see the pace of others and mine, it was going nowhere. I’m not sure what happened this weekend, it’s been a bit like that since lap one. Maybe it’s just one of those mysterious weekends, which I hope [it is], but I felt like I had no weapons in the race.

“It’s one of 21 weekends. Of course it didn’t really go well, a bit better on Daniel’s side, but we’ll regroup and go again in Barcelona.”

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