Robert Kubica feels his comeback to attain a degree for Williams in 2019 after eight years with out racing in F1 is undervalued by the game.
The Pole was among the many brightest skills on the grid when he suffered very critical arm accidents in a rallying crash in February 2011 which had seemed to finish his F1 profession.
Aston Martin workforce principal Mike Krack not too long ago described Kubica as “one of the best I’ve ever seen”, with the duo having labored collectively at BMW Sauber in 2008 when Canadian Grand Prix success was achieved.
After greater than 18 months out of motorsport following his accident, Kubica returned to compete in rallying, raced once more in 2016 within the Renault Sport Trophy and, in 2018, turned a Williams F1 take a look at and reserve driver.
The next 12 months, Kubica was given a race seat by Williams alongside a rookie, George Russell, and on the German Grand Prix he completed tenth to attain a degree.
Had he not carried out so, the workforce would have gone from the 2018 Italian GP to Hungary 2021 with steady blanks – due to this fact averting a stretch of 55 scoreless races.
Nonetheless, Kubica, now 37 years outdated, thinks the actual fact Williams had been on the lowest ebb of their aggressive historical past between 2018 and 2020 means his fairytale return was a lot much less observed than maybe it should have been.
“After my crash in 2011, I didn’t at all times suppose I might return to Formulation 1, and so returning to Formulation 1 at Williams was the largest success I’ve ever had in my racing profession,” stated Kubica in an interview with racingnews365.com.
“It was a disgrace the automobile was not good that 12 months as followers have few reminiscences of my comeback due to that.
“Equally, folks overlook I used to be the one who managed to get a World Championship level that 12 months, and that was no simple activity with that automobile. I’m nonetheless happy with that time scored on the German Grand Prix, it was an vital second in my racing profession.
“It was the end result of the lengthy street I needed to journey to get again into an F1 automobile and to get again into life in any respect. A second sadly only a few folks keep in mind, however that’s the way it works in Formulation 1.
“It’s a pity that’s the case, however alternatively I realise many different folks can’t do what I’m nonetheless doing now after the dangerous accident. Ultimately I even managed to get again into an F1 automobile, whereas I needed to begin from scratch after my accident.
“I actually needed to study every part over again, however step-by-step I got here again and even turned down alternatives to return to Formulation 1 earlier. At that second my physique wasn’t prepared and I might most likely have opened many wounds once more if I might have entered at that second.”