Kubica admits he wants 'better results'
May 20 - Robert Kubica insists he does not regret returning to Formula 1.
That is despite the fact that, just five races into his first season since sustaining permanent arm injuries in 2011, rumours of Kubica's demise are now beginning.
Sergey Sirotkin said he would gladly take his Williams cockpit back, and new team reserve Nicholas Latifi impressed the team with his Barcelona test.
Kubica admits that 2019 hasn't gone his way.
"The season isn't over yet, we've only just had the fifth grand prix," he told the Polish business newspaper Puls Biznesu.
"Unfortunately, in this difficult situation, we often forget - and even I forget as well - about what I managed to achieve.
"Of course everyone including myself would like us to have better results," Kubica added. "That would make things easier for me.
"But as I have said, it is much better to be here than to be watching the races on television."
Kubica, 34, says Formula 1 has changed a lot since he last raced some eight years ago.
"Everything except the steering wheel has changed, although that has changed as well," he said. "The races have changed as well. Everything is completely different."
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Still amazed he got the gig in the first place, but then 2 days after his signing Williams got a major Polish backer. Pay per race drivers always get caught out
By staying at Williams as a driver he is doing nobody any good .He needs to face the facts and retire and let Latifi get the experience under his belt as he is the future !
Occon better idea
Nothing t prove
Definitely improve driver quality
It's another driver with established F1 experience they need, not just add yet another F1 rookie to the list. Kubica is to be commended for giving it a try, and in a less disastrous car he could maybe have had a decent season. But now Clare should eat humble pie and beg Massa to come back from FE, otherwise they've no-one with both the experience and speed to tell them what the car is actually doing.
Occon is a fast n competitive/competent driver . Mercedes F1 driver aswell.
He would fit into what you've commented about.
Agreed with you? %
Ocon would fit the bill - but would he want to go there? There's the possibility that it could be a career-ending move. And for a young driver on the up who wants meaningful results, what's the point of just racing your team mate for second-to-last place? Realistically things are not going to get better at Williams unless they change their philosophy and start to go down the B-team route, do a deal with Mercedes for some technology that will enable them to participate in the mid-field fight. Which might well mean Ocon being part of the deal, because he's got Mercedes behind him. Otherwise they'll remain stuck in a vicious circle of still having to go with inexperienced and often second-rate pay drivers who can't give their engineers much useful feedback, and falling even further behind technically, making it even harder for Clare to find adequate sponsorship.
you're wrong about Kubica and you'll see about that very much soon.
8 years is quite a bit long and with the state-of-the-art Williams' machinery it was never going to be easy, but I heard hundrets of times before that he should be dead already, that he's finished, his life is finished and his career too, that he never drives even road car again...and over and over again and know what? - all of that always turned out to be bullsh!t.
Have some faith people, at least for a while and it's not five race in...
I've nothing against Kubica - I admire tremendously his fightback against the odds and his determination to get back into F1. But as you say, eight years is a long time to be out of an F1 car - look how Schumacher struggled after only a couple of years out - and I feel that RK should try for a WEC drive where he would still stand a chance of actually winning some races, while getting paid for it instead of having to pay for an F1 drive. I would hate to see this season being so disappointing for him that he retires completely. But he's not what Team Williams needs in these critical moments - he bent the car again in FP1 at Monaco today, a circuit at which he used to excel.