Name: Robert Kubica

Born: December 7, 1984 in Krakow, Poland

Team: BMW Sauber

Height: 6'

Weight: 160 lbs.

Hobbies: Bowling, computer games, indoor karting.

Previous F1 Teams:
2006 - 2007 BMW Sauber

Victories: 0

Background:

Robert won six Polish karting championships before he moved to Italy at age 13 to pursue his kart racing career in the heart of world karting. He continued winning races and championships in Italy and elsewhere, racing as a salaried driver for a kart team.

First Polish F1 Driver:

In the middle of the 2006 season, Mario Theissen, the BMW Sauber team director, decided to try a daring, if

unorthodox test. He invited Jacques Villeneuve, one of the regular BMW drivers, to hand over his seat to Robert at an upcoming race in order for the team to see how Robert could handle a race. Villeneuve, a world champion with more than a decade of F1 experience, decided to retire rather than to cede his seat. Robert became the regular Grand Prix driver. At his first race, the Hungarian Grand Prix, he finished eighth and would have scored a point, but post race scrutineering found the car to be under weight. Even so, by his third race he finished on the podium, taking second place at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza.