Renault has quickly found a replacement for Fernando Alonso, who will be moving to Ferrari next year. Filling Alonso’s seat will be Robert Kubica, who will be leaving his current BMW Sauber F1 Team.
“I am very happy I will be joining Renault in the 2010 season. I feel I have a special connection with this team because in 2005 I won the World Series by Renault. This gave me the chance to test with the team in Barcelona, which led to my debut in Formula One,” said Kubica. He was testing for the team back in 2005.
“We are very excited to have signed Robert with the Renault F1 Team starting next season. Ever since Robert made his Grand Prix debut in 2006, he has been on our radar as one of the most naturally talented drivers of his generation and he has delivered on that promise so it’s great to have secured him in one of our cars next season,” said Renault’s new team principal Bob Bell.
BMW Motorsport Director Mario Theissen said: “Robert played an important role for us – and certainly we did the same for him. He joined us in 2006 as a test driver with no Formula One experience, and then we promoted him to be one of our team’s drivers during that season. He never let us down and, with our first pole position in 2008 in Bahrain and first victory the same year in Canada, he set milestones in the history of our team. We are grateful for his strong and constant performances and wish him all the best for his future.“
After dabbling for years in the IT industry, Paul Tan initially began this site as a general blog covering various topics of personal interest. With an increasing number of readers paying rapt attention to the motoring stories, one thing led to another and the rest, as they say, is history. An avid electronic gadget aficionado as well as big-time coffee lover, he's also the executive producer of the Driven motoring TV programme.
Next year say goodbye to BMW and Petronas BUT PROTON COME in…wtf
This is a record – first comment already mention Proton.
paul,
bashers… we cant keep their mouth(or actually fingers) from bashing.
bashers will keep coming until all the proton lovers reduce to zero…
hehe…
we also cannot keep the lovers or ampu's mouth from loving…
they don't see from the view of basher.
No la, bashers will keep on coming until 1st January 2020, the day proton will announce it is bankrupt, hehe…
BMW better
hahahahaha… good one. TOKMOH
Paul, can you post a story on lingerie. lets see if you can still get a anti-proton post on the first comment
I think Petronas will still be in F1… sponsoring 1MF1 Team i.e Lotus/Proton for next year.. it's a pity for BMW to leave but life goes on… btw, i don't think Renault will be much stronger next year & feels sorry for Kubica… but maybe i'm wrong.. hmmmm
Do they have enough garages for all the new teams? Or all teams are just getting one garrage each to make way for other teams?
if not enuff FIA will surely ask the circuits management to upgrade their pit garages, right? so i don't see any problem there..