ABU DHABI -- Williams technical chief Paddy Lowe has refused to give any indication of the team's plans for Robert Kubica beyond this week's tyre tests.
Kubica completed 100 laps of Yas Marina on Tuesday before handing the car over to Lance Stroll, the man he hopes to partner in 2018, for the final couple of hours. He returns to the car for a more condensed schedule on Wednesday, where he is expected to complete some runs on Pirelli's softest compounds.
Though the purpose of the two days at Abu Dhabi is a tyre test for the teams to collect data and build understanding about Pirelli's 2018 compounds, which include the new hyper-soft tyre, it is also believed to be a crucial part of the team's evaluation of the Polish driver.