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During the last two season Heikki Kovalainen was driving for one of the legendary Formula-1 teams – McLaren Mercedes. This year however the Finn is looking forward to the new horizon with the Lotus F1 Racing Team and will try to support the team and reach the best results possible. While Lotus is getting his new car ready at the team’s factory for the launch in a couple of weeks’ time, Kovy revealed a bit about the Team’s progress.

Heikki Kovalainen’s had to wait for a long time to find out of Kovy is set to sign for a new Formula 1 team and stay at the highest level of motorracing, or leave for the pastures new following the example of the fellow countryman Kimi Räikkönen. Well, finally we have some good news for all of you because this morning Lotus F1 Racing have finally announced that Kovy will join the British-Malaysian squad next season. His team mate will be Jarno Trulli.

The 2009 Formula 1 season is now concluded and frankly it is a shame that we had the 'guess the position' competition on our web-site and not 'guess what will go wrong with Heikki's weekend'. Every racing weekend we could be quite certain that something will go wrong. For the last race of the season the first problems were reserved for the qualification. Kovy’s speed gave us hope that he could actually make it to the front row – yes!, but it never went that far thanks to the gearbox issues. His car got stuck in second gear and with that all his chances to gain a good starting position were shot.

If you ever wondered what is going on behind the scenes with your favourite team between the Grands Prix here we have a fascinating new video showing the remarkable journey made by the team's F1 cars from Woking to the Italian Grand Prix in Monza.

Enjoy!!

„While I'm really looking forward to race at a classic racetrack like Suzuka for the first time, I don't think the circuit will be ideal for our package“, stated Heikki Kovalainen when he and the team were heading towards Suzuka – and sadly he was right. After the good showing on both Friday and Saturday mornings every session that mattered went wrong. In the quali Kovy only managed P9 after hitting the barriers in Q2.

What a busy week it was for Heikki Kovalainen! Firstly the Finn spent some time in London where he and his team mate Lewis Hamilton helped to launch new kids wear lines for M&S, signed hundreds of autographs and spent a lot of time with the fans. Kovy had time to share a smile with every fan, especially the small kids, and to answer their questions. After that he flew to Singapore not only for this weekends race activities, but also for a few more promotional meetings.