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Nico Hülkenberg & Steven Petrik
A Ferrari engineering-academy graduate who delivered Hülkenberg’s long-awaited first podium.
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Results
Together
Since 2025. Grand Prix starts only.
2026 season
Championship position and points include sprints.
Driver career
Since 2010, with every team and engineer.
Up to round 17, Singapore Grand Prix (2026-10-11).[2]
Milestones together
- First podium for Hülkenberg, at the 2025 British Grand Prix in his 239th start.[3][4]
On the radio
No verified transcript collected. We only quote radio that a reliable outlet has printed word for word.
Race engineer
Steven Petrik
American
Nico Hülkenberg's race engineer at Audi.[1]
Education
Mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech; master’s in racing engine design at Oxford Brookes University.[5]
Career
- 2015–23Ferrari, via its F1 engineering academy: performance engineer to Sebastian Vettel, then Carlos Sainz.[6][7][5]
- 2024Joined Sauber; replaced Alex Chan as Valtteri Bottas’s race engineer from the Miami Grand Prix.[8][3]
- 2025–Race engineer to Hülkenberg as Sauber became Audi.[1][9]
Previously engineered
Valtteri Bottas
Also
- Engineered Hülkenberg to his first podium, at the 2025 British Grand Prix in his 239th start.[3][4]
Performance engineer
Not publicly confirmed
Audi has not named this engineer, and no reliable outlet has reported who it is.
Engineering lead at Audi
Alex Chan
Head of race engineering[10]