Robertℱ Kubica has revealed he signed a contract to drive for Ferrari in 2012 prior to suffering severe injuries in a rally crash that forced him out of Formula 1. 

Then Renault driver Kubica suffered life-threatening injuries in a horrific rall🐻y crash in Andorra on the eve of the 2011 season, which cut-short his promising F1 career. 

Remarkably, the Pole 🎉returned to the cockpit of modern-day F1 machinery last year as he took p♛art in a series of tests with former team Renault and Williams.

He was considered 🦩for a full-time return to F1 with Williams this season, but the Grove-based squad ultimately opted to replace the retired Felipe Massa with Russian rookie Sergey Sirotkin, instead handing Kubica a reserve driver role for 2018. 

A potential move to Ferrari had long been mooted as an option for Kubica had the rally crash not occured, but when asked by host Tom Clarkson in a♏n official F1 podcast if he had agreed a deal to partner Fernando Alonso in 2012, Kubica replied༺: “Yes.

"[The] First [goal] is to enter F1. Second is to become an established driver in F1, so you have good valu🐟e, a good reputation, which is more difficult than to enter.

“Third, you win a world championship or become a Ferrari driver. I haven't won a world championship, in the end I haveꦰn't become a Ferrari driver but I was very close.”

Kubica admitted he woke up a few days prior to the Ronde di Andora and did not want to compete, but꧙ went ahead with the event in his desire to improve as a dr𒊎iver, knowing he would not have had the opportunity again once he moved to Ferrari. 

"I was not happy to be as 🐓good as I was," said Kubica. "I need more. I thought rallying would g⛄ive me this. And it really gave me [that]. The problem is I paid too high a price.

“The fact is this was the last rally I was doing in my life, because I knew the team I was going to next year [2012] I was no♒t allowed to rally.”

Kubica, who participated in a grand prix weekend for the first time since the 2010 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix ear♑lier this year during practice in Spain and Austria, insisted he did not find his recovery period harder 🌊knowing he had agreed a switch to Maranello. 

"My recovery was so hard that for the first 16-18 months it did not hurt," he said. “I wa🐲s fighting, I was concentrating on recovery, I was going through a difficult period.

"The more time was go𒐪ing the more difficult it was becoming, becau♋se the hope that things can get sorted are disappearing.

"There were m൲oments I was recovering extraordinarily good and there were then months when surgeries went wrong 𒐪and I went back six months instead of improving.

"It was painful [no𓄧t racing ജin F1] but it was not more painful because I knew I was going to race for Ferrari.”