Heikki Kovalainen

ellen777 · Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 5:39 am Post subject:

its terrible how heikki could possibly be punished for something he had nothing to do with Sad

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Salo · Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 9:05 am Post subject:

First two laps of Bahrain grand prix (you can't find that on youtube as FOM deletes all the videos Sad

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Heikki's crash in last year Spain grand prix :

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Spaniard · Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 5:11 pm Post subject:

Martin Whitmarsh wrote:

Q. There was a big gap between the performance of Heikki Kovalainen and Lewis Hamilton at this race. Why was that?

MW: I think there are a number of things. I think the weekend was poor because we made some development mistakes. We had a new front wing, and I think that between us, all of us involved, we did not adopt the new front wing with Heikki's car. So I personally think, and I have expressed this to the engineers, that we did not have the best engineering package for Heikki.

He missed going through to Q3 by hundredths of a second. We then decided to fuel him long and we decided to use the prime tyre for the longer stint at the beginning of the race, and I don't think anyone realised that the prime was going to be a second a lap slower. I think struggling for grip, I don't know what happened, at the start he lost a lot of place.

We could have pulled him in quicker, but when you have a heavy fuel load and sacrifice that strategy, then you are often caught nowhere. So I think there is a whole range of reasons, but as a team we can reflect it. Heikki has done a solid job in this team, we have a strong commitment to him, and I am sure we are going to see him competitive at the next race.

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By the way, there won't be any punisment, it's just FIA's way to show how powerful they are.