Recent News of Formula1

Heikki Kovalainen insisted that time was the best healer in Bahrain on Friday as the 1Malaysia Lotus team makes its Grand Prix debut this weekend. After finishing second practice five seconds off the...

Drivers: Lucas Di Grassi (Virgin), Nico Hülkenberg (Williams), Heikki Kovalainen (Lotus), Robert Kubica (Renault), Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull). ......

As brand-new teams facing established rivals, Lotus, Virgin and HRT all knew they faced an uphill battle over this weekend's Bahrain Grand Prix. But while the fears of two of them were realised on Fri...

Drivers: Lucas Di Grassi (Virgin), Nico Hulkenberg (Williams), Heikki Kovalainen (Lotus), Robert Kubica (Renault) and Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull). Q: Gentlemen, how is it to be in F1? Lucas, would you...

Friday's press conference featuring Sebastian Vettel, Robert Kubica, Nico Hulkenberg, Lucas di Grassi and Heikki Kovalainen...

Friday at the Bahrain Grand Prix marked an historic day for Lotus Racing, exactly six months to the day since the team's entry into the 2010 Formula One(TM) World Championship was confirmed. Jarno Tru...

The Lotus Racing Formula One Team made it's Formula One debut today at the Bahrain Grand Prix in Friday's two practice sessions. Lotus only got their Formula One entry in September last year and in th...

The rear wings of the Lotus cars had sprouted changed rear wings when making appearances on-track in Bahrain on Friday. The T127 chassis of Jarno Trulli and Heikki Kovalainen are competing with an add...

Kovalainen says concerns about large speed differentials are overplayed....

With Heikki Kovalainen having explained to GPUpdate.net that hydraulics is currently the 'weak link' of the Lotus car, fellow debutants Virgin Racing have been hampered to a greater extent in the same...

New car needs work...

Heikki Kovalainen admits that the new Lotus team is exceeding all expectations following its first winter testing. Now the only Finn in the field, the 28-year-old hopes to iron out niggling hydraulics...

That was what this day was all about for Lotus as well as the other Formula One teams. The British-Malaysian team finalized their preparations for the Bahrain Grand Prix in two weeks time, with Heikk...

Heikki Kovalainen completed another 65 laps in the warm temperatures at Barcelona. After some developmental mechanical and weight balance changes, the team were happy to see yet more improvement in th...

Heikki Kovalainen is the latest Formula One driver to express an interesting in trying his hand at the World Rally Championship....

Whilst acknowledging that the Lotus T127 is lacking downforce in relation to its F1 2010 rivals, Heikki Kovalainen insists the car has potential - as does the Cosworth engine in the back of it....

Heikki Kovalainen is confident Lotus's 2010 challenger has potential despite a few hiccups in their opening test....

So far the Lotus T127's first test has been going pretty well. The reliability seems to be there and it was only the enthusiasm of driver Heikki Kovalainen that cut short their Thursday session at Jer...

Finally the sun returned to Jerez after a torrential downpour last night left the local roads strewn with rocks, and the journey in and out of the circuit tricky for many. Heikki Kovalainen resumed dr...

Heikki Kovalainen admits that his Lotus car's main problem is the lack of downforce, but the Finn is hopeful the team will be able to make progress with time....

Heikki Kovalainen has admitted that Lotus' first Formula 1 car in sixteen years carries a fundamental downforce problem, as he completed his Jerez test slowest on the timesheets and 3.2 seconds down o...

Wet conditions in Jerez greeted Lotus Racing on Thursday as Heikki Kovalainen had his first taste of the car. Eager to get his day underway......