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Another pointless weekend for BMW

The BMW Sauber Formula 1 team was unable to impress yet again. The team finished in 13th and 15th with Robert Kubica and Nick Heidfeld. It is the fifth race weekend the Hinwill based team has been unable to score any points.

Speaking about his race Robert Kubica said: "This was a very difficult race for me. 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 13th is just what was possible today."

Nick Heidfeld commented: "I'd say given our poor qualifying results the race result was what we expected. 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."

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