And Colossally That's History S4 E7: Robert Kubica - The lost champion of F1’s modern era
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🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
On the latest episode of And Colossally That's History, Matt and Richard reflect on the career of Robert Kubica, regarded by many as the lost champion of F1’s modern era.
They describe Robert's path to F1, when he battled - and often beat - fellow future grand prix stars Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg in karting, before his dazzling debut races with BMW-Sauber.
Kubica's dramatic pair of Canadian GPs are also discussed at length, with Matt telling anecdotes about witnessing the Pole's horror shunt in Montreal in 2007 and subsequent win at the same circuit in 2008.
Matt and Richard also muse on Kubica's inherent strengths as a driver and the way he was perceived and appreciated by fellow drivers and team bosses, both before the 2011 rally crash that stopped his career in its tracks and after, when he made a determined return to F1 before battling to victories in rallying and at the Le Mans 24 hours.
And finally, there's time for a debate about where Kubica fits into the unfortunately large collection of lost champions - those drivers whose careers were halted in their prime, before they could achieve what they seemed destined to do.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:09.4 | Hello, friends and fellow petrolheads, and welcome to another episode of |
| 0:14.8 | And Colossily That's History, with me, Matt Bishop, and me, Richard Williams. |
| 0:19.6 | We're heading back into the modern era this week. |
| 0:22.8 | But it's still history, isn't it? Because if you stop to think about it, history is anything |
| 0:27.4 | that's ever happened in the past, isn't it? That's undeniable, Matt. Yes. |
| 0:33.8 | So on that basis, today's episode is going to be devoted to a driver whom no less a Formula One legend than Fernando Alonso has opined was the best driver of his generation. |
| 0:48.3 | It's a massive claim, and you might naturally assume that Fernando, if he were talking about someone other than himself, |
| 0:55.8 | might have been talking about seven or eight time world champion, Formula One world champion, Louis Hamilton, |
| 1:02.8 | or four or three time Formula One world champion Max Verstappen. |
| 1:07.7 | Oh, controversial. |
| 1:08.8 | Well, why not, why not, why not? |
| 1:11.0 | Nothing against Max Verstappen, one of the greatest drivers has ever been. |
| 1:14.5 | But this episode is not about Abu Dhabi 2021, but you know what I'm talking about. |
| 1:20.1 | That's also history, but not our history. |
| 1:22.0 | Exactly. |
| 1:22.7 | I suppose that's right. |
| 1:23.5 | Anyway, to be fair, Fernando rates Lewis highly and Max extremely highly, and rightly so in both cases. |
| 1:31.4 | But no, Fernando was talking about a man who never won a Formula One World Championship |
| 1:36.9 | and only ever won one Formula One Grand Prix, Robert Kubitzer. |
| 1:42.9 | And Fernando isn't the only one who holds Kubitzer in such high regard. |
| 1:47.3 | Only recently, in Brazil, Lewis Hamilton himself was asked about the poll, telling journalist |
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