Nico Hulkenberg has always been one of Formula 1’s best qualifiers on the grid, having only been beaten twice by his teammate in nine full seasons. The German driver announced his arrival in F1 when he qualified on pole for the 2010 Brazilian Grand Prix in an inferior Williams during changeable conditions. This ability to extract the most out of a car throughout a single lap is one of his main strengths as a driver, with long-time Sauber sporting director Beat Zehnder branding him a ‘madness qualifier’ when interviewed on the Formel1.de podcast. Now his race engineer at Haas, Gary Gannon, has …