Heidfeld: 'Kubica was wrong to think that BMW preferred me'

Robert Kubica and Nick Heidfeld together formed the driver duo at BMW for a number of years. This came with several highlights where they even had a chance to win the title in 2008. However, things didn't always bump between the two drivers, as Kubica had the impression that Heidfeld was being pulled ahead by the team. Something that was not the case.

Heidfeld was part of a German team at BMW and that gave Kubica the impression that he was 'less important'. "What I didn’t like about him", says Heidfeld in the Beyond the Grid podcast, "is that most of the time he thought the team was benefiting me over him, because it was a German team as BMW and I was a German driver."

"I didn’t like it because he did put that out in the press quite often and I think it was simply not true. He was always saying the team prefers me over him, and I get better whatever… that was not true", which Heidfeld strongly indicates that this impression is based on nothing.

By the way, it's not just water and fire, because the German also has nice words for the Pole. He says: "He was the teammate I had the longest in Formula 1, for nearly three seasons. And I would say that he was the most complete of all the teammates I had."

"He was not as quick as Kimi Raikkonen in races and he was not as quick as Mark Webber was in qualifying. But overall, as a whole package, he was really up there", concludes Nick Heidfeld.