(Photo: Kamui with girlfriend, actress Yu Abiru)
As the dust settles from another Formula One season and preparations for next year go into full swing, Kamui Kobayashi caught up with the Sauber Media team to review his 2011 season and the tough decisions that needed to be made part way through the season when the team abandoned development of the C30’s blown diffuser.
How would you sum up your season?
Kamui Kobayashi: “We had a promising winter testing and a strong start to the season. In the beginning we had every reason to be happy with our performance. Later, I would say from the British Grand Prix onwards, which was the ninth out of 19 races, we struggled due to the decisions made about the rules and our own technical development. We didn’t follow the direction of the ‘off throttle exhaust blown diffuser’ any further. Instead we worked hard on the direction of development we had decided to go in, but we could not make up for the disadvantage that came from not having the same technology as the other teams. I can be happy that I still scored points in the final two races. This was a good achievement under the circumstances.”
Read the full interview here.
Kamui post-race interview from the Monaco Grand Prix:
Slow motion from the Canadian Grand Prix:
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