Hard to believe that it’s almost 5 years since I was last at the Yas Marina circuit for the very first race with Bentley’s GT3 car. We’d chosen a nice little 12 hour race do ‘dip our toe in the water’ (!) as a new team with a new car…..
We didn’t win the race, but the car and team performed well and in motorsport parlance, we did a Moses…….we came fourth.
I’m the one
not in overalls clutching my little black book.
One of my roles as Performance Engineer was to assist the multi rally championship winning M Sport team expand to be a crack circuit racing team.
You may remember that during that period a certain Robert Kubica was driving one of their Fiesta World Rally cars.
Lovely guy, and there is no doubt about his talent, speed or commitment.
However, maybe it was something to do with his rehab as a competitive driver, but the vast majority of his rallies ended in the hedge with ambition getting the better of adhesion, or was that his physical ability?
I wish Robert all the best on his return to F1 and I will be intrigued by his progress with the Williams team next year.
