Kubica to Depart AF Corse on the Heels of Le Mans and World Championship Success

Robert Kubica has put it on record that he is to leave AF Corse. It was with this team’s yellow Ferrari that he secured an overall win at Le Mans and a runner-up spot in the World Endurance Championship. As for what comes next for the Pole, he has not made that clear, nor has the team put forward a name to take over his seat.

The two have put together the finest results of a career that has had to be begun anew on two occasions. In 2008 Kubica took a Grand Prix for BMW Sauber in Canada and was set for a move to Ferrari until a rally accident in February 2011 all but cost him his right arm and put an end to that chapter. He did return to Formula 1 with Williams and Alfa Romeo nine years down the line but with little in the way of a competitive car, so the latter part of his career has been built in sports cars.

Beating factory crews from several manufacturers with a privately run Ferrari to take Le Mans outright is an outcome endurance racing does not often see. The same can be said of the second place in the world championship with the same yellow car and the same crew. They are achievements for a driver who was told back in 2011 he would never again be in a single-seater.