BMW Sauber rookie Robert Kubica has revealed his frustration after a disqualification robbed him of a points-scoring debut to his Formula 1 career at the Hungarian Grand Prix.


The 21-year old was stripped of his seventh-place finish when his F1.06 was found to have been 2kg under the minimum weight limit in post-race scrutineering.



Kubica, the first Polish native to race in F1, would have become just the 53rd driver to score points in his first outing and admits his disqualification was hard to take after such a strong debut weekend.

"The disqualification was very frustrating, but I am happy that I was able to show some good driving and I hope for a lot of other nice moments in Formula 1,"

he said on his personal website.

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Maiden Button win in chaotic Hungarian GP

Briton Jenson Button won his first Formula One race on Sunday when he came home ahead of Spaniard Pedro de la Rosa at the end of a wild, dramatic and rain-swept Hungarian Grand Prix.


The 26-year-old Honda driver worked his way through the field after starting from 14th place on the grid and took full advantage of the misfortunes of several other leading drivers.


Both championship contenders Fernando Alonso of Renault and seven-time champion German Michael Schumacher of Ferrari failed to score points.


Pole-sitting Finn Kimi Raikkonen, in his McLaren Mercedes-Benz, led for a long period from the start but failed to score after crashing. Alonso crashed out, too, but only after a wheel nut flew off his car and Schumacher abandoned the race with four laps remaining when he was third due to mechanical problems.

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This is the man whom even the oft-derided Ukyo Katayama dismissed as "rubbish". The now defunct "Bluffer's Guide to F1", which depicts the sport as one where the aim is to throw a car at a wall, as a result names Inoue as an example of the perfect F1 driver.

When Johnny Herbert first tested the 1995 Benetton and was 2.5 seconds slower than Michael Schumacher, in hindsight he said he

"felt like Taki Inoue or someone".

Furthermore, the renowned encyclopaedia of F1 drivers, the Grand Prix Who's Who, whilst generally giving praise to most pilots, is positively disdainful in its treatment of the hapless Inoue. Even Jackie Oliver, Taki's boss in 1995, supposedly joined in the criticism when he was quoted in Autocourse as describing Inoue's 1995 season thus:

"His learning curve has been steep, but his performance very flat."

As a result, some would regard him as one of the worst-ever Grand Prix drivers. But let Autosport in its 1995 review go in to bat for poor Taki:

"he cheerfully accepted his limitations, although he would occasionally put in quite a respectable time on a circuit he knew."

Inoue's engine failed on the 14th lap. Having stopped on the edge of the track, his engine steaming, Inoue got out and began to berate the two marshals on the scene for not getting the fire extinguishers out. One of them finally ambled to the armco to get an extinguisher, but Inoue, in a hurry, followed the poor soul and seized the canister from him.

As he turned back towards his stricken Arrows, Inoue failed to see the marshals' vehicle heading towards him along the grass, and he was given an almighty clout. Amazingly, he ended up on his feet, but after a moment's delayed reaction, he clutched at his injured left leg and fell to the ground. Even more amazingly, one of the marshals on the spot hurriedly took the extinguisher which he had now dropped, and tended to the car, without giving a moment's thought to the hapless driver writhing on the deck!

Of his Formula 1 career, Inoue just wants to put it behind him. As he says himself:

"F1 was a dream, okay? Now it's gone. Now I wake up. And nightmare, I completely forget about Formula 1."

His final words of self-assessment in an interview with F1 Racing magazine were:

"Smoke too much, drink too much, lazy bastard."