Dear Heikki’s supporter,

A warm welcome to our fan-site dedicated to the newest Finn in Formula-1, Heikki Kovalainen. During the current 2008 Formula-1 season Heikki is doing a great job driving for Vodafone Team McLaren alongside last season’s vice champion Lewis Hamilton. Regular podiums, and maybe even wins, are strongly on the cards for the 26 years old driver from Suomussalmi.

You are probably already quite familiar with our web-site, as during the last two years we worked tirelessly to provide you with the best Heikki web-site on the net. In the absence of an official web-site for Heikki our aim has always been to give everyone an opportunity to show support for Heikki, find new friends, share your experiences and leave Heikki a message of encouragement or support, and we will continue to do our best!

We would like to give our sincere thanks to every one who has made contributions to this web-site. First and foremost, our thanks to Heikki for finding time to read the messages you leave in our Guestbook, and also for answering a few of your questions, for that our special thanks to former Renault PR manager Bradley Lord. With help and co-operation from the BBC sport web-site and their editor Andrew Benson during the 2007 season we were able to provide you with Heikki’s column, otherwise published exclusively on BBC web-site. And, of course, every fan loves a good photo, so thank you to all the photographers, professional and otherwise, for the contributions to our unique gallery.

We have some new and exciting web-site features coming soon, so check back frequently! In the meantime I would like to remind you whereas our web-site is unable to provide Heikki’s autographs, memorabilia or souvenirs to every fan who asks for them, there will be opportunities to win Heikki’s autograph in a series of competitions, once again, coming soon to our web-site, so watch this space!

Yours,

Team of heikkikovalainen.net