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Lotus stint wold have been 'too risky' - Hulkenberg

Nico Hulkenberg revealed earlier in the week that he had been approached to take over Kimi Raikkonen's seat at Lotus F1 for the final two races of the season, but that he had turned it down. “We had an offer from Lotus and we talked about it,” the 26-year-old's manager Werner Heinz had told German newspaper Bild. "We decided that Nico would drive the last two races with Sauber." And after arriving at the Circuit of the Americas for this weekend's United States Grand Prix, Hulkenberg admitted that the idea of a two-race stint at Lotus alongside current man-in-form Romain Grosjean was just too risky for him to go for. "It sounds attractive from the outside; on the other...
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