As for the chance to be involved in the year leading up to the rebrand, Hulkenberg added: “It buys us some time, getting to know each other. There are still some faces I know from 2013, but also a lot of new faces.
“It’s still going to be a Ferrari power unit [in the car for 2025], so that’s not going to be foreign to me, but obviously to get to know the team, the infrastructure there, and already try to help and steer certain things.”
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For now, Hulkenberg is “focused on what’s ahead” with Haas as he paid tribute to the team who gave him the chance to make his full-time F1 comeback in 2023 after three years on the sidelines that included only occasional stand-in appearances for Racing Point and Aston Martin.
Asked if there was anything Haas could have done to keep him onboard for a third term, Hulkenberg commented: “It’s one of the 10 teams on the grid, so for sure I was thinking about that too.
“I was speaking to Ayao [Komatsu, Team Principal] weeks and weeks ago and telling him, ‘Look, there’s quite a lot of movement on the driver market but one scenario is also I could imagine to stay’, so there was also talks here in parallel.”
Haas have yet to confirm who will take Hulkenberg’s seat for 2025.
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