Interview with Kubica: hopes for big step forward in Turkey


By Autosport
May 20 2009

Interview with Robert Kubica, talking about his prospects on the coming Monaco and Turkey GPs, and season in general.

Autosport asked: Ferrari made a big step when it introduced its double diffuser in Spain, are you hoping for something similar?

RK: Of course we hope so. I hope we will get at least as big, or even a better, step in Turkey as in Barcelona. But I don't know how big the step will be, or how the others will improve.

In Barcelona all in all everybody had improved - some more, some less. The grid was a bit shuffled, but overall the gaps were pretty similar. So we have to keep working and hoping that in Turkey will get quite a big step forward.

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Interview with Kubica: hopes for big step forward in Turkey
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20/05/2009 20:30
I think this is also interesting:

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Q. Last year BMW stopped development on 2008 to get an early start on 2009, but it didn't pay off. What are your views on that?

RK: Somehow as a driver you have to be prepared for something like this. Of course I was hoping that we might be in good shape for this season, but already during the winter we had the first information that we might not be as strong as we were thinking and we were hoping to be.

With the new regulations it was like a new Formula 1. The room for improvement was much bigger, and that's what happened. Some teams that were in difficulty made a big step forward, and with the double diffusers soon there was a final FIA okay, and they went for it straight away, so we were falling behind at every race.

If you were faster by a second and you lost two tenths every race, you would still be first, but if you were already fifth or sixth and then falling behind, in a season like this when the pack is extremely competitive, we fell much further behind than we expected.

I might say I'm surprised, but in Formula 1, especially when you have so many new regulations and changes, it can happen, and unfortunately it happened to us.

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