Hulkenberg posing next to his 2007 title winning A1GP carHe may only be 21 years old, but he already has a wealth of success to his name, most notably in the self proclaimed "World Cup Of Motorsport", A1 Grand Prix, racing for Willi Weber's Germany team in the 2006-07 season, at the age of just 19, and despite a less than spectacular season in German F3, he was picked by Weber (at the time, Schumacher's manager) in place of the experienced Timo Scheider, he re-paid the faith shown in him by Weber with some stunning performances that shocked nearly everyone that season, they were expecting France (with their lineup from last season, including multiple A1GP race winner Nicolas Lapierre) to walk away with the title again. He made his intentions clear with a dominant win at the first round at a wet Zandvoort, Holland, only USA's Phil Giebler finished within half a minute of the German.
From then on, he struggled some-what in the Czech Republic and Beijing but then a dominant feature race win in Malaysia really set the ball rolling, after a podium finish in Indonesia came the big push, double wins in the next 3 rounds (New Zealand, Australia and Durban = 6 races) all of which he dominated from the outset won him the title, he missed the Mexico round before finishing the season with podium finishes in Shanghai and Great Britain to help Germany win the "World Cup Of Motorsport" by a staggering 35 points from the runners-up, New Zealand.
From there on, he went to the European F3 championship and performed admirably as a rookie against a class field finishing in 3rd spot behind Grosjean and Buemi with 3 wins and 72 points. At the moment this season, he's putting his new found experience in F3 to good use, winning 4 of the 14 races so far meaning he sits top of the standings 13 points clear of his main rival for the title, Italys Edoardo Mortara.
Next season, i think he is almost destined for a drive in GP2 and also in the meantime, he has taken on a testing role for the Williams F1 squad.
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