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Kubica raises concerns and heavy criticism on BMW' situation
By The Offsider & F1.pl
May 23 2009
Robert Kubica talked with F1.pl, and made some bold statejments which undoubtely will leave none unmoved. Some may thing they are harsh, but all will agree the current situation for BMW Sauber is worrying and even embarrasing

Translation: "We already saw on Thursday that the situation is difficult like in Bahrain, or even worse as I used to be very quick here. It doesn't make sense for me to push to the limits in order to take 15th or 17th place. It's no point to risk a collision. If I was at the front and was fighting for top positions it would make sense, but not in such situation. The car is very difficult to drive, we lack grip and that's it" said Robert Kubica.

"Maybe I could achieve more but I was released from the garage in the wrong moment. On the outlap there were 4 cars in front of me and 2 behind. We have problems with heating up the tyres even with 30 degrees Celsius temperature, so that was a problem. I had much more grip on soft tyres when the red flag was waved. The car was handling much better then. It's a shame because we could have better time. But it's small difference whether we are 14th or 17th".

"We may be lucky tomorrow but there are many cars in front of us and our pace is very poor. If 15 cars go off the track or have some failure then we can win but even then it's not that certain. Even if everything goes well, we won't be much faster that now.

"We are a strong team but we have to realise that we are not that high on the grid like we think. We need to look at what happens more realistically. Try to adapt and keep working. We've had problems for a very long time, in fact since the middle of the last season. I think that Mario will have something more to say on this subject." finally commented Robert.

As well, after Q1 it was visible that Kubica an Heidfeld spent a long time talking. It seemed that Kubica was on a "rant" and Heidfeld moved his head showing agreement. WIll be interesting what emerges afterall.

In our opinion a re-shuffle in the team seems closer and closer, especially after the disaster of this GP so far (and probably tomorrow too)

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