07/03/2016
NEWS STORY
Robert Kubica will make his return to circuit racing when he contests the 12 Hours of Mugello later this month.
The Grand Prix winner, whose F1 career came to an end in a horrendous rallying accident weeks before the start of the season in 2011, is to partner Czech rally driver Martin Prokop at the wheel of a Mercedes-Benz SLS GT3, entered by MP-Sports.
The popular Pole, who many believe had the potential to be world champion, faced a long recovery process following the 2011 accident in which he suffered partial amputation of his forearm, compound fractures to his right elbow, shoulder and leg, as well as significant loss of blood.
Days before the accident, in pre-season testing at Valencia, he had topped the timesheets in the new Renault R31.
As he recovered, there was talk of a return to F1, but he subsequently slipped on ice near his home and broke his leg, though by this time Renault had brought in Kimi Raikkonen, who, ironically, had left F1 and subsequently went to WRC.
In late 2012, Kubica contested a couple of small rallies before joining Citroen in the 2013 European and World Rally-2 Championships, winning the latter with 5 wins and 6 podiums.
In 2014, his first season in the main WRC, he took his first SS win in the Monte Carlo Rally.