“To continue,” the racing driver Robert Kubica once said about his existence since the accident, “I had to accept a new life. It would have been much easier to give up.” But when the guard pierced his rally Škoda and he was seriously injured in it, while his co-pilot only got rid of scratches, he did not give up.
When Kubica, elaborately liberated, with dozens of broken bones, a total of 42, and only one and a half liters of blood in his body, he did not give up more than alive. It was also clear that the promising Formula 1 career-the switch to Ferrari, his lifelong dream, was destroyed in the 2012 season-he did not give up.
The lifelong dream is still true
Operated several times, on life and the right arm, the right hand saved, but permanently impaired, passed nine years, and the poles suffered further setbacks before returning to Formula 1 – without a chance. But never, Robert Kubica never gave up.
Who wanted to surprise it, not that, but like this man, the forty year old Robert Kubica, whose will never seem to break, last Sunday, more than 14 years after the crash in February 2011, the 24-hour race in Le Mans won? Not that, but how the life goal of great victory in a Ferrari was true? If not in Formula 1, then at the most famous car race in the world.
Laid out in the cockpit with the bosses
Although Kubica shared the tax of the Ferrari prototype held in Modena-Gelb with two teammates, the British Philip Hanson and Yifei Ye from China, the triumph from Sunday as Kubica's victory goes into the history books. Because he did 166 of the 387 laps on the Circuit de la Sarthe alone, 43 percent of the race distance.
Because he declared the last 59 laps as a top priority, jammed behind the steering wheel for three and a half hours, could drink almost nothing because of a defect and, as he later told himself, because more than thirty hours hadn't slept. Above all, regardless of the physical exertion, Kubica raised the nerves to lay out of the cockpit with the Ferrari bosses at 340 km / h.
His yellow racer, deployed by a customer team, was only considered the third -loving car in Maranello, as a step -sister of the two red factory racers, if you will who have won in the past two years.
Convinced to sit in the fastest Ferrari, Kubica leaned against the stable director in favor of the Werkstrios, preferred to be preferred, Ferrari offered his forehead and was heard when the leading factory ferrari had to let the brisk Poland pulled.
“Winning in Le Mans,” said Kubica at the finish, “is something special.” And if you heard that, you could hardly think: Fortunately, this man never gave up.
