WRC – Robert Kubica wants to “learn and learn”

“My goal is clear: to learn and learn.” This is what Robert Kubica explained, when he spoke on Friday, his program in WRC2, a discipline in which he is involved this season and where he will defend the colors of Citroën at the wheel of a DS3 RRC. “Experience is really essential here, more than in car racing”, continues the former pilot of Formula 1, seriously injured in February 2011 during a small rally in Italy. “On a circuit, you can do several laps, the drivers know the circuits by heart. Here you have to fully trust your grades. For me, it?s also important to work on this grading system because I think we can improve and that?s the key to success?, specifies the Pole who will have as co-pilot during this new adventure for co-pilot Maciek Baran, also Polish, and seen in 2003 alongside Michal Solowow in WRC.

In addition to its program in ERC, Including the Canaries rally next week, the Pole will participate in a total of seven events counting towards the world rally championship, with the exception of Argentina, Australia and Great Britain. The first will also take place at the beginning of April, on land, in Portugal and it will be about “the most difficult of the year” for the old pilot Renault. “Even if several people have claimed that I have already done tests on land, in fact this is not the case”, he corrected. “We are going to do tests after the Canaries. The Portugal Rally will be my first WRC experience and my first gravel rally. I will also discover very long special stages for the first time, one of them is over 50 km. We have a lot to learn. »

Furthermore, Robert Kubica, who notably carried out tests for Mercedes in DTM this winter, recognizes that moving from the circuit to rallying was not an easy decision to make. “Everything I do in life, I do it 100%. And this will be the case for my involvement in rallying”, assured the native of Krakow. “But I’m not going to completely exclude the circuit from my life. Maybe I will do some track testing this year but only if my schedule allows it. The most important thing is for me to be competitive again and at the highest level possible. I suppose it is partly successful since I am in the WRC. Even though I consider F1 a step above the World Rally Championship, it is impossible to compare the two disciplines. It’s as if we wanted to compare the most famous marathon with the 100m of the Olympics,” concluded Robert Kubica.