 His teammate for his debut season was Robert Kubica, who like Petrov – who stands at tall – is one of the tallest drivers on the grid.After qualifying seventeenth, Petrov's first race ended prematurely when the team found his right-front suspension strut to be damaged, which the Russian suspected to have been caused by hitting a kerb too hard.He had been chasing Rubens Barrichello for tenth place and a World Championship point at the time of the incident.