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.
After five years in Formula 1 from 2006, four with BMW and then a year with Renault, Kubica signed a contract to join Ferrari. In February 2011, he was almost killed in a crash in the Ronde di Andora Rally in Italy.
Multiple surgeries and extensive rehabilitation followed. Kubica rebuilt his life and career, returning to racing in 2013 and winning the second tier of the World Rally Championship that year.
