Quotes from Robert Kubica

There is no medicine maybe for everything, but there is a big medicine which is downforce in an F1 car.

When you get to an F1 car and after one lap you see the pace is there, it is special emotions and I miss it so much.

You know if you have driven well or not, but sometimes because of the car or package you simply cannot do any more.

I've become more sensitive, more open, which is not necessarily good in F1. But if you are able to control your emotions, I think it can be positive.

The brain adapts very quickly. It is incredible how quickly we can adapt and what progress we can make in a very short time.

When you have raced for 20 years and one day you have to stop, it's not easy, especially when you are hit with big problems.

If you have more downforce, everything becomes much easier. Drivers drive better, engineers they have more room for setup, the tyres are working better because you switch them on earlier and you have less degradation.

Poland is my home country but in go-karts, Formula Renault and Formula 3, I always raced for Italian teams and spent over a year living close to Monza, so this whole area holds good memories for me.

I will always give 100 percent and I am looking to finish in the points on a consistent basis.

Regarding KERS, I have mixed feelings. As I am a tall and relatively heavy person I have disadvantages regarding the weight and consequently the weight distribution of the car. But on the other hand KERS could be a big advantage because of the boost.

Of course I have to work harder because I have my limitations, and I have to prepare better and in a different way my body and mental strength, but that is part of my life.

My aim, as always, is to deliver a good and consistent performance across the year. That is the goal for any driver.

I'm quite honest and demanding of myself so if I can achieve satisfaction from the job I did, I will be happy.

I drive like my body and my limitations leave me to do it. After my accident, I discovered that to do a roundabout in the road car, you don't have to grab the steering wheel, you can use friction to turn.

I think there is only one person who can judge what I can do behind the steering wheel - and that's myself.

In a rally car when you put a 20 kg spare wheel in a car which is weighing 1,300 kg, you feel it.

Driving on gravel is very demanding. There are lots of movements on the steering wheel which put a lot of stress on my arm and my hand.

I think I've done a lot and I've proven myself.

As always, testing can only give you ideas on where you are. And it can also mislead you.

It's true that driving an F1 car in testing is helpful, it's not that you learn everything.

Things can change very quickly in Formula 1.

Sometimes in Formula One the fans are too far away from what is going on the track.

I think it's impossible to drive a Formula One car with one hand.

Using KERS and the adjustable front wing is not particularly difficult. Once you've worked out where to use KERS to optimum effect at each track, and in which places you adjust the front wing, it happens pretty much automatically.