“He landed there and said ‘I just landed here, I’m going to do a test’. And I said ‘well, maybe you should jump in a Formula 1 car’...” - Otmar Szafnauer
“He had just landed in Germany…I think he was flying to Germany to do some kind of sports car test or something. I don’t know what category of racing. But he landed there and said ‘I just landed here, I’m going to do a test’. And I said ‘well, maybe you should jump in a Formula 1 car’. So he said ‘yeah, absolutely’. I think he spent an hour on the ground in Cologne to grab his boots and a helmet. I think the helmet he grabbed isn’t to spec anyway. And then he flew into Birmingham so he landed here about 7, 7:30 last night.”
Otmar Szafnauer
Racing Point F1 team boss
On Nico Hülkenberg’s (GER) emergency call to sub Sergio Pérez (MEX)
