Kubica substituye a Villeneuve en bmw Opciones

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Coño, sorpresa!

Ademas dice que Jacques ha informado que no podía correr por el accidente del otro día, pero Thiessen dice:

However, we have not yet made a decision on who will drive the car either in the remaining races of the season or next year.

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Jacques not returning, Kubica manager hints - 02 August 2006
Robert Kubica is a 'sensation', according to the Polish press which has begun to leap onto the bandwagon as the 21-year-old is promoted into the BMW-Sauber race seat in Hungary.

Newspaper 'Zycie Warszawy' made the 'sensation' claim, but on Wednesday the former test driver's manager revved up speculation that the Budapest bombshell is the beginning of the end for the man he replaces, Jacques Villeneuve.

Although BMW carefully worded its press statement on Tuesday, manager Marcin Czachorski suggested to 'dpa' in an interview that 35-year-old Villeneuve will not be returning to the race berth.

'The most important thing is that BMW does not look outside of the team for a replacement for Villeneuve,' he said.

Czachorski recalled the phone call from team chief Mario Theissen as 'like lightening from a cheerful sky'.

'The joy is enormous,' he admitted, 'but we do not lose contact with reality.'


No more third car for BMW-Sauber - 02 August 2006
With 'Friday' driver Robert Kubica taking over the controls of regular racer Jacques Villeneuve, BMW-Sauber will not run a third car in Hungary, a spokesman confirmed on Wednesday.

With the event in Budapest being the second leg of a European double header, it is understood that there was not enough time after Hockenheim to appoint a new driver.

Teenage star Sebastian Vettel, who tested for the Hinwil-based team at Jerez last month, might have been a logical choice to fill Kubica's boots, but the German crashed heavily at Spa-Francorchamps in a junior single-seater last weekend and sustained an open fracture to his finger.

He will likely be out of the cockpit for weeks.

Asked about the vacant Friday drive in Hungary, BMW spokesman Joerg Kottmeir said: 'We will not run a third car.'

The Munich-based marque's head of communications did not say who would be designated as the official reserve driver.