Robert Kubica has declared himself happy with the move from BMW Sauber to Renault for the 2010 Formula One championship season and after the first day of play here at the Bahrain International circuit the Polish racer is confident he made the right move.....

A new team for you, Robert. What are your feelings about that?
Quite happy, actually. It is not easy to change after four years being with one team. It is quite a different mentality team, so we have done quite good work in winter to prepare for the new season, new challenge. It is okay.

Robert, your feelings about today? You ended up 15th.
It was quite a good day. It was different running with this temperature compared to winter testing, so we have quite a nice run, smooth without major problems. We have to work a bit on the car to improve it and try to do our best tomorrow which will finally be the day of truth.

You’re a former pole-winner here. What are your feelings about the circuit, particularly the new part?
The new part doesn’t look really interesting, at least for myself it’s a kind of a street circuit, it reminds me of a Monte Carlo a bit, the Monaco race track. It’s very slow, a lot of bumps, quite tough for the tyres and very appropriate compared to the old section of track. Yes, it was quite dirty as Sebastian mentioned. This morning it was quite slippery there. Afterwards it improved but there is still quite a big delta shift between the grip of the new section and the old section.

And you’ve been quoted as saying that Renault could create a surprise?
When did I say this, a long time ago? Well, it depends how it goes but I think we were in pretty good shape in winter testing, maybe not in the last tests but before we were surprisingly good. But we have to keep working. Actually, we are doing it very hard. The guys didn’t go to bed last night, preparing the car because new bits arrived quite late, so it was quite a tough two days for them. But let’s hope we will pay them back on the performance side.

With 23 cars on the track, some of them significantly slower than you, how can you deal with traffic? Is it a big issue?
I’ve had similar problems to Sebastian. They are there, for sure they are not having an easy time to keep the car on the track, so that’s how it is. They are there and from our side we can only try and get some more space when they are in front of us, but it’s hard for them, it’s hard for us. That’s how it is.

Do you enjoy the new section of the track or would you prefer to go straight after turn three?
Old one, probably, old section, so old track.