How Robert Kubica came back to racing through thick and thin Car News

“I’ve never talked about my limits and I don’t want to use them as an excuse. This is me, and I have to get the most out of who I am now. This is my main goal. Sometimes I fight with myself. I can have better days and worse days. But everyone is human. I’m looking for challenges that I really enjoy, because I don’t want to keep things simple.

“I could list categories and probably also opportunities from the past that could have brought me a lot of money. I could have had an easy life, but I refused because I wanted to focus on something else. This concentration keeps me going and also helps me in everyday life.

Kubica’s story is above all human. He talks about his passion for enjoying “pure fun” driving even when the going is tough. His change of perspective is clear. Everything is a hard-fought bonus for him, every lap he does in an F1 car is a little miracle, considering the accident that could have broken him mentally and physically.

Plus, his racing instincts are still there. In his season with Williams, he excelled in the early rounds. And he showed his good judgment in the race conditions during this four-hour endurance race on the Red Bull Ring, calling for a switch from wet to mid-size tires at the team’s last pit stop, preparing the ground for Delétraz to close the victory.

The ELMS is the perfect place for a pilot of Kubica’s talents. The WRT has a superb track record in GT racing, but this is its first full-time foray into prototype racing in the LMP2 class, and Kubica has bounced back from a tough DTM campaign in 2019 to kick off.

The importance of this decisive victory in Spain cannot be underestimated. The ELMS is not the most publicized series, but it is extremely competitive and its teams regularly fight for the top of the LMP2 category at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. For Kubica, winning at such a level was a special moment, even though it was, by his own admission, easy for him.

“It was one of the easiest Sundays from my point of view,” says Kubica. “But this series has a high level field with at least three or four very good teams with a lot of experience and solid [driver] Queues.