"My Last Race in Yellow": Le Mans Winner Kubica Walks Away From AF Corse Ferrari After Three Seasons

Robert Kubica did not wait long to say goodbye. A few hours after the chequered flag fell on the World Endurance Championship season at Monza, the 41-year-old Pole picked up his phone, recorded a short video, and told the world he was done with the yellow Ferrari.

"Final race done, end of season," Kubica said in the clip posted to Instagram on Sunday night. "Normally, I'm not used to summing it up, and I don't want to sum up the year. But just to let you know, this has been my last race in yellow. That's how it is. Let's see what the future will bring. Thank you for the support and see you soon."

It was a quiet end to a partnership that gave Kubica the biggest win of his endurance-racing life. He joined AF Corse when Ferrari's satellite Hypercar entry debuted in 2024, sharing the No. 83 499P with Phil Hanson and Yifei Ye, and the trio's finest hour came at Le Mans in 2025, when they took the French classic outright. Kubica spent some ten hours behind the wheel that day, and the victory made him a Le Mans winner to go with everything he had already done in Formula 1, rallying and single-seaters. Across the three seasons together the crew collected two WEC victories, with Le Mans standing above them all.

The final chapter was written at Monza on Sunday, where the No. 83 car came home sixth in the 6 Hours season finale. He has not revealed what comes next, and neither has the team named a replacement. Hanson and Ye are expected to stay on, having recently signed on as Ferrari factory drivers, but AF Corse's place in Hypercar next year is not even guaranteed, with Ford and McLaren joining the class and entries suddenly harder to come by.

For his part, Kubica made clear what still pulls at him. "I don't know what I will be doing," he said in a statement issued through the team. "I know more or less what I would like to do. I would like to come back here but I don't know if that will be the case. We will have to see. I always said Le Mans is the race I would like to have a go at again and try to win it."

It is easy to see why. Le Mans is the race that has defined the second act of his career, and he has performed in every edition he has contested, in LMP2 and in Hypercar alike. "It would be good to have the opportunity and I would definitely like to do Le Mans, maybe more," he added. "Realistically, we will have to wait to see what the future will bring."

Kubica's story has always been one of comebacks. A grand prix winner with BMW Sauber in 2008, his Formula 1 career was cut short by a rally crash in 2011 that left him with severe arm injuries, and few expected him to race at the top level again. Instead he rebuilt himself in rallying, returned to Formula 1 with Williams in 2019, and then reinvented himself once more in endurance racing, winning titles in LMP2 before stepping up to Hypercar. The Le Mans triumph last year was the summit of all of that.

Now the yellow chapter closes. Whether the next one brings him back to La Sarthe, and in whose colours, is the question the whole paddock will be asking through the winter.