Nico Hülkenberg

Audi · P17 · 7 p

The Audi car currently sits in the back half (1.72 s/lap off the fastest car in race pace). Hülkenberg is stronger on Sunday than on Saturday: race pace (1.82 s/lap) is closer to the front than qualifying pace (2.06). The trend is upward: over the last five races the race-pace gap has shrunk by 0.17 s/lap. In wheel-to-wheel combat Hülkenberg outperforms the car: the driver share of attack is +0.31 s/lap – Hülkenberg gets past cars the pace numbers say should not be passable. Tyre management is better than the field's: Hülkenberg's stints lose less pace per lap than others on the same compound. In qualifying Hülkenberg leaves an average of 0.09 s on the table against the ideal lap – the sectors are there, rarely on the same lap.

Hülkenberg has 7 points to Bortoleto's 10. In qualifying Bortoleto leads the intra-team qualifying battle 9–7, by 0.080 s/lap on average in Bortoleto's favour. In races where both were classified: 6–4 to Hülkenberg, and in race pace Hülkenberg is 0.022 s/lap quicker over the season. Current form (weighted to recent races) gives Hülkenberg an edge of 0.07 s/lap. Tyre management is better than the team-mate's (-0.027 against +0.020 s/lap stint slope versus the field).