Nico Hulkenberg will start Saturday’s Chinese GP Sprint from the pit lane after Sauber changed the setup of is C45’s suspension.
Scoring points on his Sauber debut last time out in Australia where he was P7, those six points more than the team scored the entire 2024 season, Hulkenberg’s chances of adding to his tally in Saturday’s Sprint were undone by a lack of pace in Sprint Qualifying.
Chinese GP Sprint grid: Pit lane start for Nico Hulkenberg
The German finished SQ1 with a 1:32.675, knocked out of qualifying by a tenth of a second with his rookie team-mate Gabriel Bortoleto taking the final place in SQ2. The Brazilian would go onto qualify in 14th place while Hulkenberg watched on from the garage.
“Unfortunately,…