A really good season - Kubica

Robert Kubica has successfully completed his first full season as race driver for the BMW Sauber F1 Team. With 39 points he made a decisive contribution to the team's impressive placing in the Constructors' Championship.

Robert took the start for the BMW Sauber F1 Team on 16 occasions. His record comfortably passes scrutiny: he scored points in 11 races, in the process managing top five placings on no less than seven occasions.

Viewed purely statistically, this points' score equates to sixth place in the Drivers' Championship for the Pole. However, cold comparison with the previous season shows that Kubica's score alone is higher than the total scored by the team in 2006. "In the end it was a good season for the team," is his immediate impression of the Formula One championship just past.

The highlights of Robert's year were without doubt his fourth places in the grands prix of Spain, France and Great Britain. Equally impressive for the fans was his performance in China - where he led for two laps and looked well on course for victory until a technical defect curtailed his race on lap 34.

In the full knowledge that he could rely upon the safety measures inherent in the BMW Sauber F1.07, the 22-year-old driver took his heavy accident in Canada in his stride. "My attitude towards safety in Formula One is still the same after my accident," he states. "Of course we did a great job with a safe car."