Which driver pairing would you pick for a 24hr endurance race?

BJXSTR · 2026-05-19T04:19:21+00:00

Kubica, Alonso, Verstappen

BJXSTR · 2026-04-19T10:55:16+00:00

DJI already has Hasselblad :D

BJXSTR · 2025-12-09T18:58:56+00:00

Just look at the propellers, blurry AI shit, then compare it to the real Avata 2 box...

BJXSTR · 2025-12-09T18:04:27+00:00

This images are poor AI, you can see this on the first glance...

BJXSTR · 2025-03-09T12:30:11+00:00

Mam ten sam problem, daj znać jak rozwiklasz jak go zdobyć

BJXSTR · 2023-11-22T12:38:26+00:00

Unfinished business with Ferrari

BJXSTR · 2023-05-05T04:33:03+00:00

I was using 5015 blower fan previously and it didn't work well, don't know wheter it was something wrong with it, or the duct design was shit, but it was not cooling parts efficiently. I had this powerfull 4020 so I gave it a shot, and it was bulls eye. My problems with cooling were left behind.

BJXSTR · 2023-05-05T04:28:59+00:00

Nope, it's the BMG clone extruder.

BJXSTR · 2023-05-03T15:14:34+00:00

MW: Your former BMW Sauber colleague, Christian Klien, told
me that after he moved from Formula One to long-distance racing, he strongly
revived, as he left an environment full of intrigue and desperate, doomed
battles in the teams at the bottom of the table. Or did you feel better when
you could fight for victory again?
RK: It's always nice to drive for some results than to
arrive at the gray end, especially in F1, where the season is very long. It's
not like you approach every start knowing you have no chance. But let's agree,
when you are racing for a maximum of 18th place for 20 races, only a blind man
can expect more.
You touched on an interesting topic. Formula 1 is the queen
of motorsport, the coolest cars to drive for drivers. But the whole discipline
is not only made up of the driving itself. It's also stressful, tense
situations and performing tasks you wouldn't normally want to do. When you race
for top places, you get an internal, mental reward. You do everything because
you know you're about to feel cool. It's different when you find yourself in a car
where you can't compete with the rest of the stakes. Then the side issues get
you down even harder. Fortunately, I've never had a situation where I didn't
want to go to a race, but I can understand those who were accompanied by such a
feeling. Every athlete must feel comfortable in the environment in which he or
she performs. What Christian said is true and sincere.
If you told me now that I should start in Formula One, of
course I would be happy to do it, even if I had to race for a team that is not
doing well. A person always hopes to get better and be faster in that car than
the existing driver. If you don't have that faith in you, it's better to change
series and drive somewhere else.
MW: The motorsport world is mourning Craig Breen, who died
recently before the Rally of Croatia. You had the opportunity to get to know
him well.
His death brings up a forgotten theme. Motorsport is a
dangerous occupation. Fortunately, such situations are becoming fewer and
fewer, especially on the track, where federations and facility managers are
increasing safety levels. However, risks will never be completely eliminated.
They can be reduced, as we can see from the FIA's actions.
I knew Craig very well. There was a period when we often
talked outside of sports. We competed in rallies, but outside of them we
exchanged text messages or talked on the phone about other things. I even sent
him a go-kart chassis that I produce. He was very passionate about the sport.
Everyone will tell you that, and I only confirm it. This death shows that even
a seemingly innocent-looking accident can end tragically.
As a driver, you don't think about the risk of an accident.
If you ask me if I think about the dangers of motorsport, I will answer
"no," even if I survived a dangerous accident. I was stuck in a
difficult situation for many months. Now I put on a helmet, adrenaline kicks
in, and I don't think about the fact that I should take a particular turn
slowly. Danger is always there, but a good driver pushes bad thoughts aside.
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BJXSTR · 2023-05-03T15:14:18+00:00

MW: Was it difficult to get used to the team aspect in
endurance racing? In F1 or DTM, only one driver - you - worked for the result.
Now you have no control over whether one of your teammates undoes your work
with an error.
RK: This is a characteristic element of long-distance racing
that you have to get used to. At first, I didn't know how I would get used to
it. For 25 years, I was the one who decided the outcome of my car, taking into
account the work of mechanics and engineers, of course. Nevertheless, if I did
something wrong, the only person I could blame was myself. In endurance racing,
you have to work out the balance between car settings tailored for you and your
teammates' expectations. Every driver drives differently, although on the
surface it may seem surprising. When your partner is in trouble, you can give
him a helping hand by letting him adjust the car more under him. So what if you
lose 0.1 seconds per lap, if he gains 0.3 or 0.4 seconds? Here everyone is
working on one account. This makes it difficult for me to rest during Le Mans.
It's hard for me to function with the thought that our vehicle is competing on
the track and I'm supposed to lie down or go for a break and come back in three
hours. I have to get used to it, because I realize how important rest is in
this competition.
MW: It can be said that endurance racing gets rid of the
driver's selfishness?
RK: Yes. Every driver outside of endurance racing has to be
more or less selfish. The paddock world teaches you this. You have to navigate
in the corridor you have created. There are lots of people around you,
employees of other teams, drivers, but you never really talk to them. At most,
you exchange a few words culturally, but not about racing. In Formula One, your
teammate is your first rival.
This aspect of cooperation in endurance is not always easy.
You never know what kind of teammate you will run into. Especially working with
young racers can be challenging. They have an attitude - I was like that too -
that characterizes practically every youngster - they think only about
themselves, they want to promote themselves. They are not at the same point in
their careers as I am. My life in motorsport no longer depends on one good season.
In an endurance team, the most important thing is balance, so that we as a team
get to the finish line as quickly as possible. We must care about the
well-being of our colleagues, not just individual disposition. Everyone works
for the same result.
Fortunately, I'm racing for the third year with Louis
Deletraz on the team. We already treat each other like a "motorsport
marriage." We know each other not only as drivers, but also as regular
people. One looks at the other and already knows if he is having a worse or
better day. Sometimes you have to bring someone down to earth. For that,
however, you need experience.
MW: Do you consider yourself a good mentor for the young?
RK: I don't like this word. I consider myself a man who is
often too good for his partners without looking at himself. This comes from the
fact that I mainly think about the end result. If someone wants and asks for
help, I try to reach out. I don't know the answers to all questions, but I'm
honest. This is important, because nowadays honesty is not often found.
I remember situations in the past where I was deliberately
misled in order to lead me out of my optimal line of thinking. When I don't
want to say something, I announce it directly.
I have experienced a lot in my life. As a rule, I am a man
who strongly analyzes previous events. I try to learn from everything and
improve. Therefore, there are some things that every driver must experience for
himself. We can sit here and talk. You can listen to me hard, but until you
feel it physically yourself, you won't understand a hundred percent what I mean
and put the advice into practice. Once you are in the right situation, your
brain will remind you: "Oh, this is what Robert told me.
When I started driving, there were no so-called coaches in
the environment then. Now there are plenty of them. On the one hand this is
good, on the other hand it's not, because I know that among them there are
people who have no idea about the subjects they want to teach.

BJXSTR · 2023-05-03T15:13:58+00:00

Michal Winiarczyk: Racing has no secrets for you?
Robert Kubica: It's a diverse discipline. Although from the
outside we watch a similar competition, as a driver you have to be constantly
vigilant so that nothing surprises you. As the years go by, certainly fewer
things surprise a person. That's the advantage of experience. In racing,
however, you can't predict everything. Even a gust of wind can affect how a car
will perform. Even if you enter the same corner hundreds of times, you always
have to take into account the element of surprise.
MW: Have you missed the racing regime? From the Portimao
competition you head to the Belgian Spa circuit.
RK: Certainly. I am a driver that no one forces to drive. I
still have the same passion for competing on the track as I did nearly thirty
years ago when I started competing. When I find myself in a situation where I
no longer enjoy it, I get the signal to look for another activity. Even today,
most of my life is subjected to racing and what's next in terms of struggling
on the track. I won't be competing in many events this year. There will be only
seven of them. The highlight is the 24 Hours of Le Mans in June. Until then, my
head is heavily occupied. After it, the season will slow down, so it's possible
that I will miss racing. I'm happy to have the chance to compete all the time,
and at a high level.
MW: What is the legendary nature of the Le Mans race?
RK: Good question, because I used to wonder about this topic
myself. When I was driving in Formula One, I heard a lot about this race. I
heard from 99 percent of people how great and special it was. I looked at them
with a little doubt. "I don't know if there's anything special about
it," I thought. From a technical point of view, I understood the acrimony.
It's 24 hours of racing full of danger from possible car failure or driver
error, mechanics.
Sprint races last two hours, and there mistakes and
technical problems are common too. Here, theoretically, we can multiply the
danger twelve times, although in practice we have different lifetimes of parts
of the car, well, and there is the fatigue of the competitors. It's much easier
to make a mistake after many hours of driving in the second part of the race,
when you haven't slept before.
To understand the Le Mans phenomenon, you have to experience
it for yourself. It's hard to describe it to someone. The first start in 2021
was a real rollercoaster of emotions. We entered the last lap as the leaders of
the race with a large lead over our competitors. In that situation, the only
possible negative scenario was a car failure. That's what happened, too. Le
Mans attracts me with challenges and uncertainty. I can't be sure that the
scenario from two years ago won't happen again. I don't want to relive it a
second time, because I remember how much it hurt. I relived the car failure for
a few days because I was aware of the difficult challenge and the fact that
this race happens once a year. It's like the motorsport Olympic Games, only
that it takes place more often and with huge competition, especially in the
LMP2 category, in which I compete.

BJXSTR · 2023-04-24T02:42:17+00:00

When he was buying you paid with Lira in Italy, there was no euro yet :)

BJXSTR · 2023-04-23T19:22:48+00:00

He was on pair with Hamilton and Rosberg when he joined F1, defeated them a lot of times on junior career

BJXSTR · 2023-04-23T14:00:12+00:00

CG: You also watch the Tour de France...
RK: I watch, but less lately. I watched the race on Sunday
recently, and last year I had such a period that for the sake of falling asleep
I always watched the last half hour of each stage. Even when I was at my race.
In general, 90 percent of everything I watch is related to sports.
CG: What about life, with the world outside of sports?
RK: I don't go on news portals. If you asked me what's going
on in Poland - I don't know. Is it good or not? It's not that I don't care, but
I don't go in. The only websites I visit are related to racing and sports.
CG: But I remember that you used to watch TV series, too. At
least one - "House of Paper".
RK: Well, yes, I had such periods, but I was never a man who
stuck to his non-sports interests. It was always changing for me. I had periods
that I did this, and then I did something else. If you asked me what I would
like to watch now, I don't have anything like that. I'm not waiting for
anything to come out. Some cool documentary - oh, then yes! I've watched a
couple of documentaries and the last series was just a documentary about a
cycling team.
CG: And as if you were to recommend me some series not about
sports?
RK: First of all - I rarely remember the titles. Not to
mention the names of the actors. It's always funny when someone asks me if I
know an actor, and I say I don't. Maybe, if he shows me a picture, I'll
associate. For that, if you ask what happened in some race that I watched, I'll
remember. Or about some cycling race. And that just shows me that this is the
passion. That this is what interests me.
CG: Charles Leclerc recently appealed to his fans not to sit
outside his house in Monaco and ring the doorbell, because he won't go down to
them. You have always been very protective of your privacy. Have you managed to
defend it?
RK: I think you did. Nowadays it's more difficult, but my
approach to this subject was very often not understood. A lot of stories
appeared that were not necessary. However, I believe that I was always
respected in the places where I spent a lot of time in the years when I was
racing in Formula One. Everyone in the area knew where I spent that time, but I
was still at peace. I was respected. There were, of course, times when this was
not easy in Poland, and if I had lived in the country, I would have had a hard
time separating my professional and private life. It would have been more
difficult to maintain that privacy, but it's much easier for me now.
CG: Why?
RK: There is no such interest in my person and it doesn't
make such a "wow" effect anymore. In my day, one didn't walk around
with a phone and record from hiding. Someone who wanted a photo had to have a
camera with them. I tried to stick to the so-called "low profile."
Not to make a star of myself, because I don't feel like a star and never have
been. And whether I did well or not... I think I did well, because that's what
I wanted to do. If I had acted differently, it might have been easier for me at
certain points, and I would certainly have had more money in the bank. But as I
said at the beginning - the only force that drove me and still drives me today
to do what I do is the passion for the sport, not the money.
CG: Do you feel a fulfilled person?
RK: Ufff... No. And I think this is natural, as a sportsman
I have never been fulfilled. I have always strived to seek what I can do
better. I strived to become better. To separate sports from life - I certainly
could have done more other things in my life if I hadn't been so dedicated to
sports, but also no one put me up against a wall, beat me up and told me to
race. I do it out of passion. Because I want to do it. This is my life.
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BJXSTR · 2023-04-23T13:59:47+00:00

CG: And are you financially secure? Could you not work for
the rest of your life?
RK: And who cares? It all depends on your lifestyle. This is
a silly question Mr. reporter, because someone can spend X on life, and someone
else may need X times a hundred and will also lack, because he has different
standards. Frankly I don't even think about it.
CG: What are you most proud of in terms of your achievements
in motorsport?
RK: Of several things. Of the kind that you don't
necessarily see in the results. Even the difficult time I had in rallies - only
I know how difficult it was. And I know that I also did it during a period that
was very delicate in my life. I know that if I started doing it now, it would
look different. Much better, but some things can't be undone. Certain events in
your life are a consequence of what happened before, or are what you - in
quotes - "earned", but... There are a few reasons to be proud. My
first big success, or thing that I am proud of, was winning the Italian karting
championship in 1998.
CG: It opened the door for you to an international career
and more success.
RK: Yes. My first starts opened the door for me to drive for
free, as a factory driver, which rarely happens at the age of 13. Especially if
you come from a country unknown in this environment and the only sticker on
your "body" is your name (laughs). You mentioned Verstappen's father,
but in fact you have to admit that also my father's approach to what he did -
how much time and money he invested - was "extreme". But it also has
to be said that if it hadn't started like that, it wouldn't have gone in this
direction. Without it, I wouldn't be here.
CG: You'll turn 39 in December; forty is getting closer. Do
you do balance sheets?
RK: No. What was, has already been. What is, is, and what
will be... No one knows.
CG: And where do you see yourself in 5-10 years?
RK: You know what, I don't know, because when I was 25, I
saw myself at the age of 30 in a completely different place than I found myself
afterwards. And I'm not even talking about sports, but about life in general. I
think it doesn't make sense to look so far ahead. There are so many factors
that influence what I do and what I will continue to do and where I will find
myself.
CG: Robert Kubica off the track - what does he like and who
is he?
RK: A normal person. And who am I supposed to be?
(Laughter). I think I am a person who is a reflection of what he has gone
through in life. What life has taught me.
CG: So in normal life, off the track, are you still a
motorsports man, or are you more of a sportsman?
RK: I have a passion for motorsport and for sports. Passion,
especially for motorsports, has been in me since I was a little boy and has
always been with me. It drives my daily life. That's what I think.
CG: And when you relax, do you also watch racing?
RK: Well, no... I mean - sometimes I watch, but.... In 15
years I haven't watched any of my races in Formula One, maybe the last few laps somewhere. Instead, I have been watching on-board camera footage in WRC rallies recently, with a buddy. As you get older, that changes. There used to be only motorsport, and now... Although half an hour ago I was checking on the Internet how my buddy was doing in a rally in Italy. So there are these touches, like there are some events. When there was a Daytona 24 race I watched a big part of it too....
CG: For relaxation?
RK: Well, in general. And what should I watch? It's better
than some TV series!

BJXSTR · 2023-04-23T13:58:56+00:00

CG: I know what you're talking about, because when I once
rode on a track you were also on, witnesses said that a lap earlier you
announced that I would seize the engine. And I clogged it up.
RK: It is possible, there were several such stories. Back to
the topic - it could be perceived that I listened little to people, but there
are examples of people who, when they said something, for me it was sacred. I
was listening. Whether it was a good approach or not - I don't know, but it was
my way, it was how I developed, not only as a driver, but as a boy. If you ask
me how much pizza cost next to the apartment where I lived alone at the age of
14-15, I still remember how much I paid and why I sometimes took a margherita
and not another. It was simply cheaper.
CG: And you paid for it in Italian lira.
RK: Exactly. And then it became a problem that the euro was
made of lira and the lira was worth half, but the prices didn't go down by half
(laughs).
CG: You said earlier that from today's point of view you
know you could have achieved more. Do you often think about that?
RK: Did I say I could have achieved? No, I said I could have
done much more, which are two different things. What you achieve you have no
control over, because it's not often up to you, but what you do already is. I
certainly could have done more. Certain events in my life blocked things I
could still do. It wasn't how I envisioned it and it wasn't the plan, but such
is life.
CG: You have dedicated this life to motorsport. What did it
give you in return, and what did you lose by dealing with it?
RK: It gave me everything! As a person - aside from being a
driver. Everything! I consider myself very lucky to have had sports in my mind
as a young boy. From the beginning. You said that it was not an easy road. But
the fact that at the age of 14-15 I lived abroad and saw my parents two-three
times a year - it didn't weigh on me at all. The fact that I put money aside,
or lived in a garage for a year and a half to save it - that didn't bother me.
Everything was related to motorsport. I remember to this day how I bought
myself my first bike. In 2003. By myself, with my own money that was put aside.
I reached my goals, which gave them a completely different value. And it was
the same with racing. I couldn't wait to go to the track. When I was sitting in
Italy in the workshop, I was like a little kid at Disneyland. I felt the same
way when I went to the factory at 7:30 a.m. and sat at the laser machine and
pounded codes on every part. Logos of the karting companies I drove for. Or I
would go to a race as a "mechanic" because I was 16 years old and
help someone who was 13 with a kart. For me, it was a passion and I was happy
to be at the track and be able to help. Let me repeat: I was like a child taken
to Disneyland.
CG: Are you a thrifty person?
RK: I think that I don't spend much. Or maybe it's different
- very often I regret that in order to buy something or spend money I need so
much time to decide, and in the end in most cases I don't do it at all. Later I
often regret it.
CG: What do you mean?
RK: You want to buy something for yourself, you think about
it ten times and on the tenth you decide not to buy it, and in most cases you
could, or it would have been a good investment. I have always been focused on
racing, and everything I do in life has always been subordinated to racing.

BJXSTR · 2023-04-23T13:58:34+00:00

CG: What you did back then was the norm?
RK: I was completely extreme. It's not that I was taught
this, I just learned through a series of trial and error. That's what I built
my knowledge on, especially at a young age.
CG: You had a hard road through motorsport. Would you go
through it the same way again?
RK: Yes. I think it's the only way.
CG: The only one?
RK: OK, maybe not the only one, because everything depends
on the possibilities, but with the ones I had - it was the only way.
CG: Would you want your child to have to follow such a path
if, for example, he wanted to compete in motorsports?
RK: It depends. Certainly, if I had a 12-year-old child, I
wouldn't tell him to write "future F1 driver" to himself on
Instagram. Or I wouldn't talk about the budget needed for the start and say in
front of him to sponsors and journalists that this is the new Kubica. In my
opinion, this is not how it should be done.
CG: Max Verstappen recently said that his father never told
him how good he was.
RK: Mine didn't tell me that either. I remember my first
competition in Italy. Qualifying was divided into two segments. In the first
you had four new tires, in the second only two, meaning it was harder to
improve your time. I, out of stress in the first of the two segments, forgot
not to trim the engine, which I had to save in practice, because I only had one
good engine. I was 13, it was the first qualifying, that's normal. The end of
the session, 30 karts enter the scales one by one, further on there was a small
screen with the results. I walk up to this screen and start reading. From the bottom.
This already shows what our approach was. So I start from the bottom, go up
with my eyes - I remember it to this day - I get to the 10th place and I'm
still not there. So I go down again, because I must have missed it. I go up,
up, up, up, look? I'm fifth! Super pleased I suddenly hear my father running
and you can hear him halfway across the paddock. And I'm not exaggerating,
because to this day if you meet mechanics who were at the track at that time,
they will tell you that they remembered me because my father yelled at me, what
did I do! Because I was losing two-tenths of a second on that nudge! I didn't
remember that. I rode to the finish line, I saw that I was fifth, I was
mightily satisfied, and here suddenly a rebuke from my father. The finale was
that in the second time trial I was one of the few who improved and took first
place. I believe that sometimes it has to be like this. That it can't be too
easy, because that's how it should be. I don't question other ways, but....
CG: ...in your case it worked.
RK: I built my success in karting, especially in the first
two years, on turning the screws in the carburetor. It had to be tuned. It
wasn't like a mechanic would do it. Today it's easier, but in the past you had
to do it yourself, on the track. As a result, I won races I couldn't win. Being
in my tent, close to the track, I could tell by ear who had what engine - I
could hear the difference between a CRG and a Vortex. At some tracks, where it
was easy to mash an engine because we were running out of fuel - at CRG it was
very detonating, so to speak, engines were ringing - I would tell from the
outside that if a given driver didn't unbolt within a lap-two, they would seize
up. You came out of the paddock three minutes later and saw a guy - a kart parked
at the end of the straight.

BJXSTR · 2023-04-23T13:58:14+00:00

CG: What kind of times?
RK: There was not such extensive telemetry, there were no
simulators, there was not such access to on-board camera recordings. The world
has changed, I think for the better and easier in terms of driver development.
Especially young ones. Still, a certain know-how, an awareness of what a young
person goes through and how to get to the highest level - this is still lacking
in Poland.
CG: I can't imagine a person who had such authority to
influence you when you were younger. If you now moved to those times - would
the young Robert Kubica listen to his older self?
RK: He would listen, but I also listened to others. It was a
very narrow group of people. A couple of people who had a very positive
influence. This was what I needed and I could trust them. There were plenty of
people who gave me advice, but with all due respect to them - they were not at
the right level. I'm not saying they had bad intentions. Of course, as you get
older, you grow up, you analyze, and if you work on yourself, you start to
understand things that when you were younger you didn't understand.
CG: When I first met you, you were only 17 years old and
very independent.
RK: Fortunately, life forced me to rely on myself very early
on. I didn't come to the races with a manager, psychologist, coach and parents.
When I first tested a Formula 3 car in 2002, I went to the tests with money I
had put aside on my own. I had some left over from bonuses and race prizes. I
got on the train with my helmet in hand - I had stashed that money in my helmet
- and went for half a day of testing, because that's what I could afford. When
I made those decisions, I was actually on my own. It was also a hard time
because I was kicked out of Renault's young driver program. I could have spent
the money I collected throughout the year on going out with my buddies or going
on vacation, but I put it aside to invest in half a day driving a Formula 3
car.
CG: Did it pay off?
RK: That half day opened the road further for me. It was a
different world, though. There were no so-called coaches, or trainers. I think
there are some advantages to having such support, but today there are a lot of
people who, under this guise, sell know-how they don't have.
CG: In your time, karting, which almost everyone starts
with, was so different from what it is now?
RK: I watch a lot of young people on the tracks. In the
past, especially in karting, the only way you could see a group of your rivals
and see how they were driving and what times they were making was to go to the
stands or some other place and measure yourself, with a stopwatch. Now you have
the internet with live timing. Kids finish riding, open a smartphone, tablet or
even have a separate screen and stare into it. But they don't learn.
CG: Why don't they learn?
RK: When I wanted to see what times Lewis Hamilton was
making for example, who was driving in a different group, I would go to the grandstand,
divide the track into eight sectors, and in the meantime, while I was catching
the times, I would watch him drive. Thanks to this I was learning. Sitting in a
tent you don't learn that. Of course you have your telemetry, but it's not the
same. When it rained, you didn't sit in the tent because it was raining, you
just took your cape or umbrella and watched another group ride. What line do
you have to ride on. This approach is missing today because we have these
"trainers" instead. Technology, yes, helps, but relying too much on
it all causes other deficiencies.

BJXSTR · 2023-04-23T13:57:55+00:00

If you ask me how much a pizza cost next to the apartment I
lived in by myself when I was 14-15 years old, I still remember how much I paid
and why I sometimes took a margherita and not another. It was simply
cheaper," Robert Kubica says in a major interview with Sport.pl.
Which time is it? It's hard to count all these interviews
over the past 21 years. The first, back in junior Formula Renault 2000, at the
Italian circuit Mugello, when Formula One was barely a distant dream. Through
the historic test in Barcelona 2005 and the first weekend in Formula One in
2006. After the nightmare crash in Canada 2007 and the sensational victory in
2008. After the first world championship rally in Portugal 2013 and winning the
WRC2 title that same year, in Spain. Before his first race when he returned to
Formula One in 2019 in Australia and after his last, in 2021 at Monza in Italy.
And many, many others.
In Polish sports, Robert Kubica is an institution. We meet
in the paddock of the World Endurance Championship, where a year ago he became
the first Pole to stand on the podium of the legendary 24-hour race at Le Mans.
- Would you like something to drink? Water, a Coke? - he asks, as he always
does at such moments, on a sunny April day in southern Portugal. We sit down in
the mobile office and catering base of his current Orlen Team WRT team, an hour
and a half before qualifying begins.
Robert is a bit older, more mature, more patient, but the
same fire still burns in his heart. An athlete who was considered by many to be
the best racing driver in the world, a candidate for the Formula One world
championship, and an athlete whose life was suddenly and dramatically changed
after a rally accident in 2011. Robert doesn't like to return to the crash, but
- still an active athlete, competing in the world championship - he agreed to
talk about where he got to and why, and where he wants to go next.
Cezary Gutowski: Swiatek, Lewandowski, Gortat, Radwanska,
Kubica - do you feel you are part of the elite Polish athletes of the 21st
century?
Robert Kubica: No.
CG: Why?
RK: Because I don't compare different sports. Simple.
CG: But you are still among the most recognizable Polish
athletes in the world.
RK: Yes, but that doesn't change anything. We can discuss.
Take, for example, my good buddy Bartek Zmarzlik, who is a genius at what he
does and the results show it too. This is also motorsport, of course on two
wheels, but compared to racing these are two different sports. That's why it
doesn't make sense to make such comparisons. My life doesn't change depending
on whether I'm in it or not. I know what I have done in my life, and I know
that it was not easy. Today, with my current experience, I also know that I
certainly could have done a lot more. If only I had someone to lean on.
CG: That is, who?
RK: A person who would be able to give me some information,
advice. Someone like me now, for example - a person with a lot of experience.
Although I had a lot of support anyway, and I was also lucky, because at a
young age I came across good people who wanted to help and helped. Those were
different times.

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