Overall it was a disappointing weekend for the BMW Sauber team at the Silverstone circuit, the Hinwil based squad leaving the ‘home of motorsport’ empty handed after Robert Kubica finished 13^th and his teammate Nick Heidfeld was 15^th. This situation means that they will now  speed up their development program in an attempt to resolve the situation.

“This was a very difficult race for me,” Kubica said. “Starting from P12 it was clear under normal circumstances we couldn’t achieve much, therefore we decided to take a risk and start the race with a high fuel load and on the prime tyres. But it didn’t pay off, because I had big problems heating up the tyres at the start, and I lost ground. We have to accept that 13^th is just what was possible today.”

The only out of the ordinary situation from the team’s point of view was when Nick touched another car on the first lap and damaged his front wing. Although he was able to continue until the scheduled pit stop he lost a lot of time.

“I’d say given our poor qualifying results the race result was what we expected,” the German driver said. “There wasn’t much we could come away with. At the start I risked a lot when I went for a rather small gap. I damaged my front wing but I was happy it wasn’t worse than that. Of course it significantly affected the aerodynamics, but we decided to wait until the scheduled pit stop so not to lose even more time. For the second stint I had to use the harder tyre compound, but the softer ones were clearly the better ones.“