
Why Kubica won't walk away from Williams
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.

Jonathan Noble is Motorsport.com’s Formula 1 editor. Having graduated from University of Sussex Jonathan worked for sports news agency Collings Sports reporting on F1, F3, touring cars and other sports, with articles appearing in The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Reuters, Autosport and other publications. In 1999 he moved to Haymarket Publishing to become a senior editor at Autosport Special Projects, and one year later he became Autosport’s grand prix editor. In 2015 he moved to Motorsport Network, becoming the F1 editor for Motorsport.com. He is also a member of the Guild of Motoring Writers, and sits on the FIA Media Council.
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