Robert Kubica, a Former F1 Driver, Is on Top of Endurance Racing
There have been occasions over the last few years when Robert Kubica said he had considered quitting motorsport. Not any more. Those thoughts have long gone.
'I thought it was maybe time for me to find new challenges,' Kubica said in an interview in April. 'Not that I don't love racing, and I didn't want to race, but I just thought that as I was getting close to 40, which I am now, and I was not super happy with where I was.
'In the end, I knew if I stopped, I would miss racing, so I kept going. What endurance racing has given me is fresh air.'
The route Kubica, who will drive in the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium on Saturday, has taken to the hypercar class of the F.I.A. World Endurance Championship is worthy of a Netflix documentary.
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