“The best driver is the one who scores the most points. That's what is important. It's nice to see that people can see what you are achieving, it's a good feeling. But it's a much better feeling to win the world championship because that is what counts. It would be better for me to win and have people saying that I have not been such a good driver, than it is to finish fourth and have people saying that I did a good job,” said Kubica in a recent interview for the autosport.com site.
The BMW driver completed his first full-time campaign in F1 last season as the 4th best driver in the championship, being outscored for 3rd place by Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen in the very last race of the season. However, Kubica's poor performances in the second part of the season were not related to a potential drop in form by the Pole driver but to BMW's switching their development programme to 2009 rather than keeping a competitive 2008 machinery.
Kubica's consistent run in the first part of the season had taken him all the way into 1st place overall – following his maiden F1 win, in Canada – before BMW decided not to risk their 2009 campaign for the 2008 title. With 3 races to go in the season, Kubica urged his team to provide him with a competitive machinery for the dying stages of 2008, as he was still mathematically viable for the championship crown.
Despite BMW letting him down in the second part of last season, the Pole acknowledged that the step forward in 2008 helped him regain his confidence ahead of a difficult and unexpected 2009 campaign.
“It was important to show in 2008 what I could do. I was not where I should have been on the grid in 2007. Now people can see what I can do. Next year is a big challenge with so many changes to the regulations. You have to be lucky to get the right direction straight away,” concluded Kubica.
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