Max Verstappen has hailed the talents of former F1 driver Robert Kubica, insisting he was \u201cdestined for greater things\u201d in the series.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
In the late 2000s, Kubica was seen as one of the most exciting talents on the grid.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
However, his F1 career took a major detour when he was involved in a life-threatening rally crash in the build-up to the 2011 campaign.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Kubica was forced to abandon his pursuit of F1 glory, having reportedly signed a deal to join Ferrari from 2012.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Verstappen, who made his F1 debut several years after Kubica’s first stint in the sport, hailed the abilities of the Polish driver.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cRobert, he is still a fantastic driver,\u201d Verstappen told media including RacingNews365. \u201cHe had a lot of talent.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you ask anyone in this paddock or previous people who have raced with him, he was destined, for even greater things to achieve in F1.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cBut unfortunately, of course, the accident happened.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\tVerstappen: ‘Fantastic’ to see Kubica win Le Mans<\/p>\n
Kubica eventually made a return to F1 in 2019, lining up alongside George Russell at Williams.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
However, he departed after a disappointing campaign and made the switch to endurance racing, with a peak result coming last year when he won the 24 Hours of Le Mans with Ferrari.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Verstappen, who is an avid follower of endurance competition, admitted his pleasure in seeing Kubica achieve the high.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cI still follow WEC a lot, and to see him race, and how he does, it’s fantastic,\u201d\u00a0he said.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cFor him to win Le Mans is, for everyone, a dream.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd to see him achieve it was really nice to see.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen has hailed the talents of former F1 driver Robert Kubica, insisting he was \u201cdestined for greater…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3518,3521,3519,3522,3520,3517,3515,3513,3516,3514,111,139,69,3512,213],"class_list":["post-609465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}