Question: Robert, how are you feeling about the car this weekend?
Robert Kubica: We have quite a significant upgrade for this weekend. Finally something that should give us quite a lot of advantage on the downforce side, so we will have more grip. But we have to see how big the step will be compared to the others. I hope, personally, that it will be bigger than the others’ improvement or we will stay in the same position, but we’ll see. All the information and simulation data is giving quite big numbers - at least half a second. But as I said, we have to see how it feels because we are quite far away from the top, so we have to make double the number of steps of the others. It will be interesting to see the situation on Friday and in qualifying on Saturday.
Question: You said that you are half a second away from the top. Can this be made up this weekend?
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Robert Kubica: For sure we need at least two steps of improvement, if the others stay at the same level, because the gap lately was nearly one second, or even more. So we need at least one second if the others stay at the same level, but we assume the others will improve. Also the teams who were behind at the start of the season, like Ferrari and McLaren, are already in front. We have to move forward, keep working. I think we have to have a bit more time as well - to see and analyse which direction we are going - and try to deliver more steps in the future
Question: So far you have no points but could have won in Australia. How frustrating is that for you?
Robert Kubica: Not really. But I think only now can someone really realize what I did in Australia. I think people who were there looking at my performance in the race didn’t have a clear picture of the potential of the car or where we were. I think most people thought the car was able to win races. In Australia we had a competitive car but not one to win races. We were lucky because of the safety car and we were in better shape with the tyre strategy because I had already run the soft tyres so there were many circumstances which were to my advantage during the race. I also think that I had a very good performance through the weekend in Australia. Normally after the race I don’t really think about what happened, but I was disappointed because I felt I lost many points and important points because points might be difficult to get in the future. But this is racing. It was the first race of the season and that’s it. Now we are here in Barcelona and we have to think about what’s coming next, not what happened two months ago.
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Question: No doubt BMW Sauber are struggling to be competitive. When you lost the momentum in the second half of last season you pinned your hopes on 2009…
Robert Kubica: For sure the situation would be much easier if we had much more improvement last year and the beginning of this year. But the situation has been different. The reality is that last year we were struggling to deliver aerodynamic parts that worked on the car. This year the team decided to go in a direction that clearly didn’t work out as a development in the first races. But this is out of my control. We have to cope with this, and we have to try and improve it.
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