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Why Kubica won't walk away from Williams

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Robert Kubica's return to Formula 1 has been blighted by the kind of uncompetitive machinery that would have caused the old Kubica to demand answers. But his time away from F1 has made him a different driver

There was a time when Robert Kubica's reaction to the kind of uncompetitiveness his current Williams Formula 1 car is exhibiting would have been to launch a barrage of angry words at his bosses, designers, engineers, and anyone else who happened to be in earshot.

In his last spell in F1, both at BMW-Sauber and Renault, he was known as a hard taskmaster, as tough on himself as he was on his teams.

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