Lotus set to sign Hulkenberg and boost budget for 2014

A Lotus contract for 2014 with Nico Hulkenberg's name on it will be signed at Enstone "either today or tomorrow", the German newspaper

Bild reports.

It was said that the team was poised to sign the 26-year-old German as soon as the deal with Quantum - formerly Infinity, a group of private investors who plan to buy 35 per cent of Lotus - is done.

If not, it could have opened the door to Pastor Maldonado.

Maldonado's lucrative sponsor PDVSA is locked in a contract with Williams, but O Estado de S.Paulo correspondent Livio Oricchio said that the Venezuelan is desperate to move from uncompetitive Williams.

But Bild

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