Symonds regrets missing out on Kubica

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http://www.itv-f1.com/news_article.aspx?id=42296

Pat Symonds has admitted he regrets Renault’s failure to sign Robert Kubica to a long-term deal when the Pole was coming through the ranks to Formula 1.

The BMW ace, who scored his first F1 pole position in Bahrain last weekend, was part of the French manufacturer’s young driver scheme as a teenager but was let go from that after just one season in 2002.

Nevertheless he still got his first experience of F1 machinery with the team when he drove its car as a reward for winning the World Series by Renault series in 2005 – but despite impressing, was by then on BMW’s radar and was duly snapped up.

Speaking in Renault’s latest podcast, Symonds, the team's engineering chief, admits the 23-year-old was one that got away.

[leopard]

btw, does he regret also winning two titles of 2005-6 ?

[FIA]

I always feel that you should never look back on what could have been in Formula 1, or having any regrets. Renault have Piquet, Grosjean and Di Grassi on there team and of course Fernando Alonso. I'm sure that many teams regret not signing up drivers, it's just how it goes in F1.