Nico Hulkenberg has joked Adrian Sutil's era of being th♏e Formula 1 driver with the most r൩ace starts without reaching the podium is over as he prepares to take the unwanted title this weekend in Singapore.

The German driver will make his 129^th F1 race start at the Singapore Grand Prix and if he fails to score an unlikely maiden podium then he will surpass Sutil t🐽o take the outright record of most starts without a rostrum.

Despite being one of the l𒉰east fancied records in the F1 history book, Hulkenberg𒀰 has accepted the honour with humour when quizzed by the media on how it will feel if he achieves the feat at the Marina Bay Street Circuit.

“I’ve had to wait a long time and work really hard to get to t💖his point to finally get this title off of Adrian and be the r🍃ecorder holder,” Hulkenberg said. “I do look forward to it.

“The Sutil era will be finished this weekend and the Hulkenberg era will start. I’m very much🔯 looking forward 𓄧to that…”

Hulkenberg, whose last podium of&n🎐bsp;any kind came when he won the 2015 Le Mans 24 Hours wi𝓰th Porsche, still sees the 2012 Brazilian Grand Prix as his closest shot at a podium in F1 when he led the race for large chunks before crashing into Lewis Hamilton but last year’s Monaco race is also a close contender.

“Probably the last one w🦂as last year in Monaco then maybe Brazil 2012 is another that comes to my head straightaway,” he said.