His nickname may be ‘quick Nick’, but increasingly ‘the comeback kid’ seems just as appropriate – from taking over Pedro de la Rosa’s BMW Sauber cockpit last season, to securing the 2011 Renault seat left vacant by the injured Robert Kubica.

And with the R31′s aggressive design setting tongues wagging up and down the pit lane, could the German have finally found himself in the right place at the right time?

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