Robert Kubica’s Rally Crash, 5 Years On: What Could He Have Achieved in F1?

Perhaps he simply lacked the global appeal of the sport's biggest names. Perhaps he was just denied the time, the opportunities and the good fortune to ensure his quality was indisputable. Or maybe, like Nico Hulkenberg and Valtteri Bottas today, public perception of him was blurred by his failure to slaughter his supposedly unfashionable, less talented team-mates. But there always seemed to be a strange reluctance to embrace Robert Kubica as one of the great drivers of modern Formula One, despite making the so-called holy trinity—Sebastian Vettel, Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso—all run scared. In 2012, Alonso told Autosport's Jonathan Noble how Kubica was "the best driver of the group," admitting his friend was the one...

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