This time last weekend, the Sauber hospitality unit \u2013 that has done more than 400 Grands Prix and is in its swansong campaign ahead of a shiny replacement for the team’s Audi era \u2013 was buzzing as the Swiss operation celebrated a sensational maiden podium for their veteran racer Nico Hulkenberg\u00a0at the 239th\u00a0time of asking.<\/p>\n
It was Sauber’s<\/a> first podium in more than a decade, their last coming through Kamui Kobayashi back in 2012 \u2013 and their fourth successive points’ score this year.<\/p>\n The team has been revitalised by an update package that has given Hulkenberg<\/a> and his rookie team mate Gabriel Bortoleto<\/a> confidence in the car \u2013 and that in turn is allowing them to push it harder in both Qualifying and the Grand Prix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This time last weekend, the Sauber hospitality unit \u2013 that has done more than 400 Grands Prix and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-259239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114840931862023411","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}