F1’s past and future merged in Hungary on Wednesday as Robert Kubica made his bow in the 2017 Renault car at the post-grand prix test.

But the 32-year-old Pole’s day got off to a literally bumpy start, when he clipped the garage wall and brought the ‘Nico Hulkenberg’ hoarding that was fixed above to the ground.

“It was one of the most stupid mistakes you can make in formula one,” he smiled. “It made me realise how much wider these cars are.”

Indeed, Kubica – permanently injured in a 2011 rallying crash – recently tested the much narrower 2012 car but on Wednesday was only narrowly slower than Jolyon Palmer’s qualifying time of last weekend.

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