Robert Kubica says he is eager to begin work on developing the new Williams having spent most of his penultimate day of testing on data gathering.

Kubica had his first full day in the FW42, which arrived late at testing last week. “Unfortunately we are running a bit late with our test programme because of last week’s issue,” he said after completing 130 laps on Wednesday.

“So it’s a bit of mixed feelings because from one point it has been positive that we did a lot of laps. From the other side it is also true [there is] not a lot of time [until] we are going to race. We are not in the position we would like to be, especially from my side, from I think an engineering point of view also.

“We are doing a lot of gathering data stuff, checking different stuff but not really working on the car. I hope the next few days we will have a bit of time to start playing with the car and see how the car reacts to different things.”

Kubica only has one day left in the car on Friday before the first race of the year.

“In the end there are some priorities and of course going to Australia without a lot of testing is not helping but I have to make sure I maximise my time in the car,” he said.

“The test what we are doing in the last day [is] in order to have better feeling and better knowledge about the car.”

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2019 F1 season