Robert Kubica has put his Fo🐷rmula 1 test return down to his preparation programme as oppo༺sed to a change in his condition, explaining that his limitations and condition remain unchanged.

Kubica turned in a star display at the Hungarori🌠ng to finish the day fourth-fastest as momentum builds towards a full-time return to F1 more than six years after a rally accident appeare🎉d to end his career.

The Pole explained how the escalation of his𒁏 comeback bid in recent months was not down to a change༺ in his physical condition, instead thanks to increased preparations.

“Nothing has changed. I am the same guy I was 10 months ago, four months ago, one week ago - my limitations ꦰare the same,” Kubica said.

“From that point of view nothing has changed. From a physical point of view and preparation let’s say a lot has changed, because I’ve started preparing. I was not targeting to come back but I knew that if I would get the chan🍸ce I have to be ready, and F1 is a very demanding sport.

“Current cars are even more demanding than previous cars. Those cars are the fastest cars of the last 20 years. In the end the cars are even heavier, a🍸nd this is the biggest difference.

“Probably no-one is talking about it because they got used to it𒅌 because every year or every🌳 two years there was minimum weight increments. For my side, when I last time drove the car the minimum weight was 620 kg, to have 100 kg [extra] bringing around the track, it makes a big difference.

“In a rally car when you put a 20 k🐬g spare wheel in a car which is weighi⛄ng 1,300 kg, you feel it. Imagine in a 600 kg car adding 100 kg!

“So there were quite big changes for me from what I knew and whatꦡ I learned in the past so there was a lot of things to learn.

“But fro𒅌m a physical point of view, inside the car it is much better than it looks outsi🌠de the car. That’s what’s most important.”

Kubica explained that his steering wheel layout had been slightly modified in order to account for the limitati♚ons in his right arm 𒆙and hand, and make activating certain settings easier.

"For the adaptation of the steering wheel there is one part that w𒐪as done especially for me. There are some adaptations on the gear shift lever, but it’s something that’s been used in the past, it’s still been useﷺd lately with some other teams which I know, which I used in the simulators," Kubica said.

"This steering wheel was adapted the past two days. It’s just to reshuffle the button positions to give the highest priorities which I can operate easier, and the lower priority buttons which you never use, or when you use them it’s onꦯce in a while in the positions that 🦄are more difficult to reach, but apart from this everything is standard."