Kubica gained more places at the start of races than his team mate George Russell in the uncompetitive FW42, but tended to lose them.

On the first lap you can hide a bit things and there is much more guessing what will happen and improvisation than knowledge. The grip is completely different, there’s a lot of things going on. And I felt like this year this has been very good.

But with our pace it doesn’t really matter. You will stay in front of those guys for one or two laps and then most of the races they will get you back. But still here we did have at least some pace to fight with the others and I was keeping eye contact with some people. Normally it wasn’t the case.

So there is, I think, some important things out of this year at least for the team. Hopefully they will be able to solve them for next year. It wasn’t easy, some things are really compromising myself and George also on racing side.