Oscar Piastri<\/a> shared the podium with Hulkenberg, and while the Australian was another left disappointed with their own result, seeing the Sauber driver\u2019s celebrations at least tempered Piastri\u2019s own frustrations.<\/p>\n\u201cWell done to Nico \u2013 I think that\u2019s the highlight of the day,\u201d Piastri said in his post-race interview.<\/p>\n
‘He\u2019s always been a top-five driver’<\/p>\n
Williams’ Carlos Sainz \u2013 a former team mate of Hulkenberg at Renault in 2018 \u2013 was also hugely complimentary towards the German after he secured his long-awaited podium. \u201cCongrats \u2013 he must have done a very solid race to be up there in P3,\u201d the Spaniard told media.<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly, for me, the fact that people kept cursing him, the fact that he didn\u2019t have any podiums, for me it was completely irrelevant. For me, he\u2019s always been a top-five driver in the grid every time he\u2019s been in F1 \u2013 his level of talent and race execution is incredible.”<\/p>\n
Williams Team Principal James Vowles also added: \u201cCongratulations to Sauber and to Nico – an extraordinary result today and well-earned in these difficult conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ferrari driver Lewis Hamilton was the man chasing Hulkenberg in the closing stages of the race, unable to get close enough to steal the podium position and maintain his streak of podium finishes at Silverstone.<\/p>\n
While his own streak came to an end, the Briton praised what the Sauber driver had achieved. \u201cThird place felt within reach at times but credit to Nico on his first podium, he drove a strong race,\u201d Hamilton concluded<\/p>\n
\u201cCongratulations to Nico for his podium, it’s a great achievement for him and his team,\u201d added Hamilton\u2019s team mate Charles Leclerc, before team boss Fred Vasseur gave his own opinion: \u201cFinally, congratulations to Nico on his first podium. Given his undoubted talent, he deserves it.”<\/p>\n
The last word had to go to Piastri though, who turned to Hulkenberg in the post-race press conference and asked the German how he felt about his first ever F1 trophy being made of… Lego.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love Lego!\u201d laughed the German. “It’s good. My daughter can play with it too.<\/p>\n
“You\u2019ve always got to see the bright side. But, you know, a bit of silver or gold would have been nice too, but I won’t complain.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nico Hulkenberg finished third at Silverstone for Kick Sauber to score his maiden F1 podium at the 239th…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":46680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-46679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114813480829582886","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}