{"id":27703,"date":"2025-08-24T05:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T09:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/hulkenberg-almost-in-red-bull-marko-reveals-frustrated-signing\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T05:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T09:19:08","slug":"hulkenberg-almost-in-red-bull-marko-reveals-frustrated-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/f1\/hulkenberg-almost-in-red-bull-marko-reveals-frustrated-signing\/","title":{"rendered":"Hulkenberg almost in Red Bull: Marko reveals frustrated signing"},"content":{"rendered":"Nico Hulkenberg was close to being Max Verstappen&#8217;s teammate in 2021, according to Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko.\n\nRed Bull signed Sergio P\u00e9rez for what turned out to be the season of Verstappen&#8217;s first championship, after his outstanding victory at the 2020 Sakhir Grand Prix.\n\nThe team was looking at that moment to replace Alex Albon and had been impressed by Hulkenberg&#8217;s appearances that season as a super-substitute due to Covid-19.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>At that moment, [Hulkenberg] was, I believe, a commentator on Servus TV, so a relationship already existed and there were the beginnings of conversations.<\/p><cite>Helmut Marko<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nMarko stated that P\u00e9rez&#8217;s victory in the penultimate race of the season changed everything.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0820%2Fr1534180_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\nLegend: Max Verstappen and Nico Hulkenberg have a good relationship on and off the track.\n\nP\u00e9rez&#8217;s time at Red Bull lasted until last season, when he was replaced amid declining results, although he achieved five victories for the team in four seasons.\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Sainz and Alonso praise Hulkenberg as one of the best in F1<\/li><li>F1 is &#8220;healthier&#8221; without Horner, says McLaren boss<\/li><li>Verstappen on 2026: It&#8217;s time to stop the rumors<\/li><\/ul>\n\nHulkenberg finally returned to F1 after some time away, first with Haas and then with Sauber this season.\n\nHulkenberg, who has a good relationship with Verstappen, four-time champion, achieved a highly celebrated first podium at the British Grand Prix.\n\nMarko suggested that signing Hulkenberg instead of P\u00e9rez could have been a better result for Red Bull, as he has struggled to get consistent results in the other car.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I think it would have been a really nice moment, because the two get along very well, and yes, Hulkenberg is a safe bank of points, and in our car it would also have been in leading positions.<\/p><cite>Helmut Marko<\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nico Hulkenberg was close to being Max Verstappen&#8217;s teammate in 2021, according to Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko. Red Bull signed Sergio P\u00e9rez for what turned out to be the season of Verstappen&#8217;s first championship, after his outstanding victory at the 2020 Sakhir Grand Prix. The team was looking at that moment to replace Alex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[443,3339,444,3525],"class_list":{"0":"post-27703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-max-verstappen","9":"tag-nico-hulkenberg","10":"tag-red-bull","11":"tag-sergio-perez"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}