How Alfa’s returning hero brings new perspective
He's overcome many setbacks to restart a racing career that once brought him close to Formula 1 world championship glory. Now Robert Kubica has been stuck at home during what should have been his busiest season ever - but, as he explains to STUART CODLING, he's still eating up the miles, albeit virtually...
Among the many ruinations COVID-19 has wrought, Robert Kubica's ambitious plans to dovetail a reserve-driver gig at the Alfa Romeo Formula 1 team with a BMW DTM drive (in which he'd also have a hand in team management) are perhaps but a stitch in a global tapestry of thwarted ambitions.
But if anyone in F1 is accustomed to dealing with bumps in the road, it's Kubica. A 2019 season spent making up the numbers in a struggling Williams wasn't the kind of comeback he'd have wanted to make after the best part of a decade out of the F1 cockpit, but it's enabled him to finally put that life-changing 2011 rally accident, and its consequences, behind him.
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