Sir Frank Williams sounds unlikely to oust German rookie Nico Hulkenberg for the 2011 season.<\/p>\n
It has been suggested the 23-year-old could make way for Venezuelan pay-driver Pastor Maldonado.<\/p>\n
But in an interview with the BBC, the Oxfordshire based team’s founder, boss and biggest shareholder Williams heaped praise on Hulkenberg.<\/p>\n
“It was a little disappointing, maybe, in the first few races, perhaps because he was being over-cautious,” he said.<\/p>\n
“But lately he has become very competitive and we have just seen the beginning of something exceptional.”<\/p>\n
And when asked if F1 spectators will be seeing more of Hulkenberg, Williams added: “Absolutely.\u00a0 We do hope so yes.<\/p>\n
“He won all the way up to Formula 3 and GP2, he has won every single championship and in the right team, hopefully us one day, he will win the world championship as well in formula one.”<\/p>\n
The latest rumour is that it might instead be Rubens Barrichello moving aside for Maldonado, but Williams also had praise for the veteran Brazilian.<\/p>\n
“He has enormous experience.\u00a0 He is now, without doubt, the most experienced driver in the pitlane and he does demonstrate that very frequently,” said Williams.<\/p>\n
“His technique is very understated, he’s a very smooth driver.\u00a0 He likes to be mollycoddled emotionally a little bit, and he likes being told how good he is, but we don’t have any problem in telling him, we believe strongly in him.<\/p>\n
“He’s good fun and very experienced and that is a great value to any team,” he added. Sir Frank Williams sounds unlikely to oust German rookie Nico Hulkenberg for the 2011 season. It has been suggested the 23-year-old could make way for Venezuelan pay-driver Pastor Maldonado. But in an interview with the BBC, the Oxfordshire based team’s founder, boss and biggest shareholder Williams heaped praise on Hulkenberg. “It was a little disappointing, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5340,448,1842,541,595],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9312,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9311\/revisions\/9312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u00a0\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"