Current reserve and test driver Robert Kubica will do three days of testing with Manor Racing’s Ginetta LMP1 car. The Polish driver might join the team for the WEC Superseason if the test goes well.
At the end of the 2017, after completing several testing days with Renault and Williams with no apparent problems, it seemed that Robert Kubica could return to Formula 1 after seven years out of the series due to the serious hand injury he had, which was caused by a rally accident in early 2011. His comeback would have been with the Grove-based team.
Finally, the team, led by Claire Williams, decided to line-up Russian Sergey Sirotkin to replace Felipe Massa, who has retired from F1. With this decision, Kubica was selected to be the team’s reserve and testing driver.
This role, however, does not prevent him to look for a place to race in any other series, and the Polish driver has now announced that he will join the Manor WEC team, which will do the WEC ‘Superseason’ with a non-hybrid Ginetta LMP1 car, for three days of testing in the Motorland Aragón Circuit, in Spain. Kubica already raced for Manor in the 2004 Macau GP, where he set the Pole Position and finished in second place.
If he manages to get good results on these testing days (19th – 21st of February), he might join the team for the complete season, which would be his first one on the series. The former BMW Sauber and Renault driver in F1 was already announced as a WEC driver by ByKolles in 2017, but the agreement was broken before the season began.
If he ends up joining the team, he would share the car with Oliver Rowland or Charlie Robertson, who are the only drivers confirmed so far for each Manor car. With the Fuji 6 Hours being rescheduled, we could race the entire season without compromising his duties with Williams.
