Robert Kubica is inching closer to his return to formula one.
The currently injured Pole last week answered "we’ll see" amid expectations he might be fit enough to return to formula one in the coming months.
It had emerged that his rehabilitation from his horror February rally crash will speed up after an imminent elbow mobilisation operation.
"After the surgery Kubica will begin immediately with simulator tests," said the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag.