Question: Can you sum up how the season was for you?
Robert Kubica: I think it has been a difficult season - a season with a lot of difficulties, not only one. The first one was of course the performance of the car. Then another one was the KERS/no KERS situation - first pushing with the KERS car and then switching completely to a non-KERS car. And then another one was about BMW not continuing in F1. So, for sure, many difficult moments. From a driving point of view it was not an easy season. I think I had a few races with very good performance, like in Australia or Malaysia. If you review the Australia race and see where we were with the car, I think it was not so bad, or even the last race in Brazil. When you have a car fighting for P12, as we had in the middle of the season, it’s difficult to make an impression. The difficulties to the season started from trying to really concentrate on KERS, which didn’t work out for us.
Question: You are one of the few drivers who has his future sorted out for next season. How much of a help is that?
Robert Kubica: Today, when everything in F1 is quite uncertain with many question marks on drivers and teams, I think I’m very happy that I’m quite well placed for the future with Renault. I’m sleeping well, so that’s good, and I’m looking forward to the new challenge. For sure it will be a big challenge because I think Renault is very motivated to come back and put the negative moments behind them. And that’s why I think we have a good chance to do well next year. It will be much better for me to test in two weeks’ time and know where I stand. Otherwise you’d be just guessing all winter and believing the numbers and just hoping the numbers will be good. As I said, there’s a lot of motivation in the team I’m joining and I’m motivated very much for the new challenge, so I think it should be okay.
Question: How do you feel knowing that your current team may not be in Formula One racing next year?
Robert Kubica: For sure I’m concentrating on the race, but knowing that’s the situation for many people in the team… that’s why I say I’m very happy to be well placed for the future, because I understand that for most of the people their future is still uncertain. For sure it’s not nice for them and not nice for me, because I have worked with the same people for four years, so your relationship gets closer. You’d like to see them on the grid. I hope we will see them on the grid. Maybe not all of them, because even if the Sauber team continues there will not be as many people as we have now, but I hope they will continue and I hope all the people working at BMW Sauber will get a job they like.
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