Robert Kubica say🧜s a lack of spare parts will once again hinder Williams through this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix as the team’s difficu💮lt start to the Formula 1 season looks set to continue.

Delays in the build of the new Williams FW42 car forced the team to miss♎ the first two-and💃-a-half days of pre-season testing, before arriving at the opening race of the year with a lack of spare parts.

Kubica finished three laps do✃wn on race winner Valtteri Bottas in Australia, but was left struggling for much of the weekend due to damage on his car despite trying 🐷to avoid the kerbs.

Two week✱s later, Williams still has a spare parts shortage, with Kubica anticipating ano𓃲ther difficult race weekend as a result.

“It’s not an easy situation from driver poin💦t of view, because we will be li꧟mited with spare parts and everything,” Kubica said.

“Looking what happened to me in Australia on Friday in FP1.♓ Going onto the kerb, I got a damaged floor, and we didn’t have bits to rep🌟lace it and it affected me probably all weekend.

“You have to have a safe approach, but still as I said we have to try and൩ do my b🐷est, make sure I’m doing my best.”

Kubica said the lack of spare parts was anoth🏅er headache for the team to deal with on top of the lack of performance in the FW42 car.

“You cannot go over the kerbs - or you can go over the kerbs, but the risk i🌟s that the car will fall apart and then you have no parts to fit them,” Kubica said.

“It is already having diffic🎀ult performance, or lacking performance a🐻nd we are adding another factor which is complicating our lives.

“But I know in the factory, everybody’s working hard so we just need 𝔉a bit more time to fix the issue.”

Additional reporting by Haydn Cobb.