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Kubica confident for Melbourne

Young Polish racing talent Robert Kubica will see be joining the grid again this Sunday with his fellow race drivers in Melbourne. The 22-year-old Kubica showed BMW is well on the pace this winter, but there has been also problems here and there. Kubica is confident though for the upcoming season.

"The winter was quite difficult for us," said Kubica in Melbourne. "But in Bahrain we have finished race distance simulations with both cars so there is some room and possibility that reliability will be good. The team is confident so I am also confident.

But looking back at the problems this winter Kubica said: "We've done less running than we should have done and often the running was interrupted by problems so it was not easy to understand to adapt to new tyres or set-up working and work on driving style which has to be quite different in my case. So it was not easy, but I think we have shown quite good pace and if the car is working we can fight for quite good lap times and make a good pace on long runs so we will see how we will be tomorrow and after tomorrow and then everything will be more clear."

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