kubica2 Wrote:
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> airefresco Wrote:
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> > I think there is a maybe. There´s more to it
> > than whether he has full movement (or
> sufficient
> > movement) and he has the strength and stamina.
> > There´s also the physcological aspect, which
> > can´t be tested, he may not necessarily be a
> > sharp now as he was 3 years ago. There´s all
> > manner things that could wrong. Plus with the
> > testing ban, he can´t drive a modern F1 car.
> >
> > Massa, Schumacher and Kimi are great examples
> of
> > what I mean. Massa taken almost two years to
> get
> > back to where he was before his accident and
> only
> > missed half a season. Granted Alonso didn´t
> help
> > things, but Kubica would have the same
> situation,
> > assuming he was in a top 6 team.
> >
> > Schumacher was never anywhere near his best,
> after
> > a similar time out and a relative minor injury
> > (compared to Massa and Kubicas). We could all
> > blame the car, but there is trend going here.
> >
> > Kimi, exception to the rule. But no injury and
> he
> > is not as quick as Mclaren or Ferrari Kimi. He
> > bailed out on a move on Vettel in Bahrain. He
> > should have won that race, he even says himself
> > that Mclaren Kimi would´ve passed Vettel.
> It´s
> > taken him half a year to get his confidence
> back.
> > But in his time out, he had been competitively
> > driving the whole time and it still took him a
> bit
> > to get up to speed and he still not as quick as
> he
> > was before he left.
> >
> > Assuming Kubica gets a top 6 team seat in 2014
> > (there´s no point him going anywhere other than
> a
> > top 6 team), then realistically even at 100%
> > fitness, he is going to need 6-12 months to get
> > somewhere close to where he was before the
> > accident. That´s 12 months a top team are
> > running an average driver nearing the end of
> his
> > career. If he was still racing, he would only
> > have 4 maybe 5 years left in him. There´s
> your
> > risk. Like Grosjean, he either going to get
> the
> > hang of it and it looks like a genius move or
> he
> > doesn´t and you look stupid and directors
> don´t
> > like stupidity.
> >
> > It´s less risky the further up the grid you go.
>
> > But he would be better off in WRC than at
> > Caterham. It´s less competitive in WRC and he
> > has a greater chance of doing well there than
> in
> > F1.
>
> Regarding the psychological aspect, Robert is a
> brave man, the first racing car he got back into
> after his near death rally crashed that ruined his
> career (for now), was a rally car! and it was his
> Renault clio with a manual right hand shifter (his
> injured side) and he proved to himself that he
> still has pace, by going faster in his Renault
> Clio on a track he drove before the accident.
> since the crash, he has had another hairy
> incident, when his co-driver skippped a page of
> pace notes at the Rally du Var, and Kubica took a
> turn about 40kmh too quick. both drivers were
> unhurt, but the car caught fire and was destroyed.
> Kubica has had too many bad crashes to care
> anymore i think, he just wants to drive fast, he
> has said when his is driving, he forgets about his
> injuries.
>
> Also, strength in his arm is not his problem,
> neither is some lack of movement in his fingers,
> they are all coming along... he does rehab and
> strength work every week several times. the big
> problem is his elbow and which prevents proper
> rotation and mobility of his arm, he has had many
> operations, and even one that put prosthetics in
> his elbow which havent fixed the problem. there is
> one more potential operation which Kubica has been
> holding off, because he says his body needs a
> break from big operations, and is hoping to regain
> use by rehab first, a reporter recently asked him
> how many operations he had, and he said nearly as
> much as there are races in an f1 season.
>
> In the recent F1 magazine, the interviewer said
> Kubicas handshake was firm. Kubica has also said
> his hand condition is much better then it looks,
> its just the elbow problem......
Thanks for the information! hoping for the best for Roberts recovery and future career, hopefully in highest possible level of motorsport.