Nico Hulk🍌♏enberg says he is “not desperate” to stay in Formula 1 as he considers his options for the 2020 season after missing out on a drive with Haas.

After losing his current Renault seat to Esteban Ocon for next year, Hulk🧸enberg was in talks with Haas as a potential replace🅘ment for Romain Grosjean, only for the team to announce on Thursday it would be retaining the Frenchman.

Hulkenberg said the news did not come as a surprise to him as he “could see it coming”, leaving🌌 him with no disappointment over missing ouꦰt on the drive.

“I didn’t pursue that deal,” Hulkenberg said. “We didn’t go ahead, we didn’t agre✤e it, we didn’t get together with Haas. That’s the consequence out of that.

“Haas was definitely an option, and we were talking. That’s definitely🤡 not a secret. We just didn’t get together, on this occasion we couldn’t agree a deal.”

The news has left Hulkenberg with limited options if hꦇe🐽 is to remain in F1 next year. Red Bull, Toro Rosso, Alfa Romeo and Williams are the only teams with a vacant seat for 2020, with the latter two being the more realistic options.

Asked by wuqian0821.com if he 𒁏saw Alfa Romeo as his best shot to remain in F1, Hulkenberg said: “I think you see and understand for yourse🎀lf what is still available, which seats and which not. I think that’s pretty obvious.

“Right now, I don’t know. I think it’s to an extent out of my control now, out of my hands. So most important is to drive aꦅnd to perform. I think we just need time.

“I think there arౠe possibilities and a realistic chance, but in this game, you can never be too sure.”

Hulkenbe🐭rg conceded that he would have to consider Williams’ current on-track performance struggles and ongoing rebuild if he were to return to the team he debuted with in 2010, stressing the need for a workable deal.

“As much as I want to continue in F♛ormula 1, for me it needs to make sense. It needs to be sensible, it ne🐓eds to be the right deal,” Hulkenberg said.

“I’m not desperate to stay in Formula 1 and just take anything. I’m not disregarding or disrespe𒅌cting Williams, I mean in generall♉y, globally, even with Haas now.

“That for me, that is the most important thingꦉ for me.”

Haas F1 chief Gunther Steiner claimed earlier on Thursday that the team ma⛎de no offer to Hulkenberg before it ultimately decided 𝓀to retain Grosjean.

But Hulkenberg said talks were “serious” with the America✱n team.

“It was serious, but it is hard for me to go into too much detail. It is all confide𓆏ntial and sensitive information and I can’t really comment,” he said.

Asked by wuqian0821.com if he received an offer from Haasꦜ, Hulkenberg🅺 said: “We had. We did, of course.”