Why comeback Kubica is not the same driver

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

Jonathan Noble Mar 28, 2019, 9:49 AM

Motorsport.com's Prime content

The best content from Motorsport.com Prime, our subscription service. Subscribe here to get access to all the features.

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.

Share Or Save This Story

Author Jonathan Noble

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.

Jonathan has won multiple awards for journalism - in 1991 he was the winner of the Guild of Motoring Writers’ Sir William Lyons’ Award for young journalists, in 2010 he was awarded the Outstanding Individual accolade for consumer journalism in the Haymarket wards, in 2011 he won Haymarket’s Scoop of the Year, and in 2018 he was awarded a prestigious Medaglia d’Oro at the Lorenzo Bandini Awards for his contribution to F1 journalism.