Sebastian Vettel was pipped to pole by McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton, with Jenson Button 3rd.

Heikki Kovalainen (19th, 19th) “It felt fine out there today. I had just one problem at the end with the power steering, but that was the only issue with my car. I’m not sure this circuit suits our car as well as it does with some of the top cars, but compared to the other [...]

It’s the second in Lotus’ two home Grands Prix of the season, and they will be hoping to be closer to competition with the midfield runners with yet more updates for the British round at the team’s ‘spiritual home’, Silverstone. Technical director Mike Gascoyne explained the updates. “We have a number of lightweight parts across [...]

The European Grand Prix was, somewhat surprisingly, a exciting and controversial race. We saw the first ever Safety car in Valencia due to easily the worst crash of the year. The commotion happened on lap 10 when Mark Webber was slipstreaming Heikki Kovalainen’s Lotus on the straight onto turn 12. Chaos ensued, with the safety [...]

Fairuz Fauzy will have his first taste of an F1 practice session this weekend as he replaces Heikki Kovalainen for Friday’s proceedings. The Malaysian driver will get to drive on home turf for the Malaysian-owned Lotus team after Kovalainen lost a coin toss with teammate Jarno Trulli to see who would relinquish their seat for [...]

The historic Lotus name is back in F1 for the first time since 1994, but can they live up to the expectation?

Lotus have said that their 2010 car will debut next month at the Jerez test in mid February. With Jarno Trulli and Heikki Kovalainen driving for the team with Fairuz Fauzy at the test driver, Lotus is currently based in Norfolk, although a second facility based at Kuala Lumpur’s Sepang circuit is also set to [...]

Today it was announced that Lotus F1 Racing would run ex Toyota driver Jarno Trulli and ex Mclaren man Heikki Kovalainen for 2010. Both have won only one Grand Prix. This seems to be a fairly good pairing for Lotus; age and experience alongside youth and potential. The only team which will have a more [...]

Lotus have today confirmed their drivers for the 2010 Formula 1 season – Jarno Trulli and Heikki Kovalainen in race seats with Fairuz Fauzy the team’s third driver. The announcement was made by Malaysian Prime Minister Dato’ Sri Najib Tun Razak in Kuala Lumpur. Trulli was left without a drive when Toyota left F1 at [...]

According to an ‘internal source’ at the Renault F1 Team, Heikki Kovalainen was spotted at the team’s base at Enstone on Friday, provoking rumours of the Finn’s return to the french team he raced for in 2007. Kovalainen’s father has said that the announcement as to where his son will be next season will be [...]