Heikki Kovalainen

Heikki Kovalainen insists beating his highly rated McLaren team-mate is not his priority.“If we are third and fourth and I`m ahead of him, then to be honest I`m thinking about the two guys in front of me,” the Finn, referring to 2007 championship runner-up Lewis Hamilton, told the Daily Star.Kovalainen has had a solid start […]

Heikki Kovalainen joined the McLaren Mercedes test team for the final session of the intensive four day test. Prior to today`s running, Lewis Hamilton has been able to complete 336 laps while team-tester Pedro de la Rosa had put in 103 laps. For Kovalainen, rain began to fall minutes before the start of morning running […]

McLaren CEO Martin Whitmarsh says the best is yet to come from Heikki Kovalainen, after the Finn notched up his third consecutive points finish in Bahrain last weekend.
“In all he has been with us for 11 weeks and he`s just getting stronger and stronger,” said Whitmarsh. “The feeling within the team is that we still […]

Felipe Massa may have dominated the Bahrain Grand Prix leading home the first Ferrari one-two result of the season, but a look at the fastest laps of the race makes interesting reading.Heikki Kovalainen ran a long second stint meaning that his third and final stint was a short one. Under pressure from Jarno Trulli, the […]

McLaren driver Heikki Kovalainen has taken issue with team boss Ron Dennis` recent claim that he was “taken apart” by the Renault team as he tackled his rookie season in 2007.Dennis said last month that his Mercedes-powered outfit can take the credit for rebuilding the 26-year-old Finn.“Heikki is a guy who was systematically taken apart […]

Heikki Kovalainen admits he feels a stronger driver at McLaren than he did at Renault, but has played down talk from team boss Ron Dennis that he has been `rebuilt.`
Dennis said after Kovalainen`s podium finish in Malaysia that his team had worked hard to lift the Finn`s confidence after a challenging debut season with Renault.
“Heikki […]

Ron Dennis thinks McLaren can take credit for rebuilding Heikki Kovalainen following the Finn`s difficult debut season for Renault in 2007.At the Malaysian Grand Prix last weekend, 26-year-old Kovalainen outperformed Lewis Hamilton in only his second race for the Mercedes-powered team.Team boss Dennis makes no bones about his belief that Renault, led by outspoken Italian […]

Bahrain GP - McLaren Mercedes - Preview The third round of the championship takes place in the Kingdom of Bahrain with McLaren Mercedes heading to the Bahrain International Circuit leading the Constructors’ table with a total of 24 points…
 

McLaren have rebuilt Heikki Kovalainen`s confidence and turned him into a Formula One driver who can push teammate Lewis Hamilton all the way this season, according to Ron Dennis.
“Heikki is a guy who was systematically taken apart last year and we have systematically put him back together again,” the McLaren boss told Britain`s Daily Telegraph […]

Heikki Kovalainen is the `surprise of the year` in Formula One so far, Ferrari test driver Marc Gene said at Sepang.The Finn`s highly-rated McLaren team-mate Lewis Hamilton dropped out of podium contention with a bad pit stop in Malaysia, but it remains the case that the championship leader was marginally outpaced all weekend by the […]

Malaysian GP - McLaren Mercedes - Race McLaren Mercedes drivers Heikki Kovalainen and Lewis Hamilton finished the Malaysian Grand Prix at the Sepang Circuit in third and fifth positions respectively…
 

Heikki Kovalainen admitted he was pleased with his result in the Malaysian Grand Prix following a difficult Saturday for his McLaren team.
Both Kovalainen and teammate Lewis Hamilton were penalised for blocking during qualifying, and had to start from eighth and ninth positions respectively.
The Finn managed to work his way through the field and finish in […]