Willi Weber has reiterated reports that his young charge Nico Hulkenberg is set to leave Williams.<\/p>\n
The famous driver-manager made the announcement earlier in Abu Dhabi, but 23-year-old Hulkenberg then revealed that he is scheduled to do the Pirelli test late this week.<\/p>\n
“Nico will leave Williams.\u00a0 They’re not negotiating any longer.\u00a0 They have probably already done a deal with Pastor Maldonado,” Weber is quoted by Express.<\/p>\n
Fascinatingly, the Cologne publication mentioned Ferrari as a possible alternative employer for Hulkenberg, and said Weber had met with the Italian team on Saturday.<\/p>\n
But Felipe Massa sounds confident about returning to Ferrari alongside Fernando Alonso next year.<\/p>\n
“It has been a very difficult year for me, but already I am concentrating completely on 2011,” he is quoted by the Brazilian media.<\/p>\n
Massa added: “We have some testing with the new tyres next week and I’m curious to see how they behave.”<\/p>\n
Hulkenberg told Auto Motor und Sport he will know more about his future after those tests, “in one week”.<\/p>\n
“Nico will drive in 2011 in formula one,” Weber insisted.<\/p>\n
Hulkenberg admitted he is not expecting Williams’ chairman Adam Parr to telephone him.<\/p>\n
“It will probably be that I call him,” said Hulkenberg.\u00a0 “The exchanges so far have mostly taken place by email.”<\/p>\n
Weber added: “Until now they’ve left us hanging in the air quite a bit.”<\/p>\n
In fact, Auto Motor und Sport said Williams has been working on signing Maldonado for 2011, placing the well-financed Venezuelan at HRT for a year, and guaranteeing him a seat in 2012. Willi Weber has reiterated reports that his young charge Nico Hulkenberg is set to leave Williams. The famous driver-manager made the announcement earlier in Abu Dhabi, but 23-year-old Hulkenberg then revealed that he is scheduled to do the Pirelli test late this week. “Nico will leave Williams.\u00a0 They’re not negotiating any longer.\u00a0 They have probably …<\/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":[5262,5340,448,1842,334,595],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9660"}],"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=9660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9661,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9660\/revisions\/9661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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