Robert Kubica's stunning start to the 2008
Formula 1 World Championship has brought him to the attention of
Ferrari and
Renault, it would seem.
The Pole has to-date notched up a second, third and fourth place for BMW-Sauber in what is still only his second full campaign in the top flight, as well as his maiden pole position in Bahrain last month. Those results have hoisted him up to third position in the drivers' title chase, just a point adrift of
Lewis Hamilton in second, and talk of Kubica scoring his breakthrough grand prix victory in 2008 is looking less and less outlandish all the time.
“He will get better and better,” the sport's supremo told German newspaper
Bild, which claimed both Renault and Ferrari have made enquiries about the 23-year-old. “If I was a team boss, I would pick him.”
Kubica got his
F1 break in Hungary back in 2006 – parachuted in to replace former world champion Jacques Villeneuve – and is contracted to
BMW until the end of 2009, with the option there to commit for a further year.
Bild, however, added that he is only earning a quarter of the €10 million salary of team-mate
Nick Heidfeld, whom he has out-qualified four times out of four thus far in 2008 and out-points in the drivers' standings.
The Munich and Hinwil-based outfit's technical director Willy Rampf, meanwhile, waxed lyrical when speaking to BMW-Sauber's official website about Kubica's potential, confirming paddock consensus that the man from Kraków will be one of the sport's very hottest properties in the years to come.
