Turkish GP: Pre-Race Interview With BMW Sauber’s Robert Kubica

Turkish GP: Pre-Race Interview With BMW Sauber's Robert Kubica

Turkish GP: Pre-Race Interview With BMW Sauber's Robert Kubica

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Question: Robert, you have the double diffuser here. What are you expecting?

Robert Kubica: Well, I think how to be better than Monaco. I think this will be easy. Now we have to see how much gain the double diffuser will bring and how our performance will be better than in the last races. In Barcelona it was not so bad. Unfortunately in two very important moments of the weekend we had two problems. But Monaco was quite difficult. I am expecting, of course, better performance but I don’t know how much.

Question: How much have you been pushing the team for the double diffuser? Are you using KERS this weekend? You seem to have so many variables to play with.

Robert Kubica: No, we are not using KERS here. As we have the double diffuser we have to concentrate on it. It can have quite a big influence on the car balance and on the set-up, so we have to work as much as possible on this tomorrow and try to extract the maximum from it. We will have to see.

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Question: You are known for being quite demanding of the team.

Robert Kubica: Me? No, not really. Why?

Question: From various sources last year particularly. Do you push them hard? Do you ask for a lot of things?

Robert Kubica: I don’t think so. I think every driver is asking for as much as he would like to get and that’s all. Everybody is pushing very hard. The driver from the driver point of view and the team from the team point of view. I think that is quite normal.

Question: Any particular expectations this weekend? You have twice qualified fifth and finished fourth here.

Robert Kubica: Yeah, if you look at last year’s results it would be good to repeat them in nearly every track of the season. But we have seen already this year that it is very difficult. In the beginning of the season it was a bit easier when McLaren and Ferrari were behind us and we were behind the double diffuser group. But then we have lost the ground in the last races. We struggled quite a lot in Bahrain and in Monaco. We were not so bad in Barcelona. I think this track will fit our car better and I hope the double diffuser will bring the expected results and we will at least be able to qualify in Q3. But it is very difficult to predict, so we will have to wait and see.

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