Nico Hulkenberg says he is partly “excited” about som🅠e e꧒lements of not being on the Formula 1 grid for the 2020 season. 

Hulkenberg will be replaced at Renault by Esteban Ocon next year and has been unsuccessful in landing a seat elsewhere, wit☂h all the remaining spots on the 2020 grid alreadꦏy locked out. 

The German finished 12th in his last race for Renault at last weekend’s🐼 season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, which marks his 177th and final F1 race after a 10-year spell in the championship. 

“I’ve known for a while that this was coming but I’m fine ab𓆏out it,” Hulkenberg said in Abu Dha🌠bi. 

“Also part of me is kind of excited about the times ahead, close this chapte𝔉r and open a new one. 

“What might happen and might not happen in the future, I don’t know, nobo🌺dy knows right now. 

“But for me obviously it’s good just 🐈to get away for a while and want to disconnect from racing for a few months and then see what I’m up to, where my head is and my heart, and reassess. 

“I’m not ruling out anything,” he added. “That’s why for me, it’s still fun at the moment and a big pa﷽rt of me is excited about that break that I’m going to get. 

“Just not living in this scꦍhedule, in this rhythm, having to do these things at th💫ese times that are preset. 

“This is obviously an amazing job and we’re all pretty fortunate to be in this indu🥃stry.&ꦚnbsp;

“Formula 1 is very 🌜unique, very cool and special but of course it’s kind of a preset life, you have to follow a schedule, all the trouble you do, all the commitment in between that we have as drivers that also not everybody sees or is aw🍌are of. 

“It can be quite intense at times. So🌠 just to get away🃏 from that.” 

Hulkenberg is yet to fi🎐rm up any racing plans for 2020 amid links to a possible switch ൲to America and competing in either IndyCar or NASCAR.