F1 » Where now for Heikki?

Heikki going to mclaren would be a big mistake! After all mclaren are not even sure if they will be able to race in 2008!

Heikki should ask Honda for a testing role in 2008. Heikki has already tested and help develop two championship winning cars at Renault. Heikki could use those skills under Ross Brawn at Honda. Rubens is probably done with F1 after 2008 or 2009. Then Heikki could move into the racers seat for Honda alongside Jenson Button. The car would have been developed by Ross Brawn and Heikki would know all about it.

Heikki to Honda get my vote!

Heiki will either go to Mclaren, Toyota or Force India, but i think he would opt for Mclaren.

Wow Rajiv, that's a pretty neat plan there. I really hope Heikki is as clever as you...

Anyway, while I agree with both of you I have to say that Heikki to Honda gets my vote too!

Mc Laren has a million dollar chance to have really fast and nice team - player Heikki Kovalainen for its team. After that they could focus on developing fast enough car for both drivers! I bet that Heikki is faster than Lewis and hopefully we will see it during next year 2008!

As everybody can see from Renault's desicion, Fernando Alonso did not want faster driver as his team mate (Heikki Kovalainen). Fernando is not winner type at all and he was just lucky to having winner car earlier! Propably this is only good thing for Heikki if Mc Laren is going to hire him. Heikki will win championship in the next year!

Heiki is a great driver IMHO, he should not go to McLaren.
There is far too much money on Hamilton's name to allow anybody to cast some shade upon his image.
LH IS nº1, the other McLaren driver WILL be nº2.

Heiki won't go to McLaren as they don't want two young drivers. Besides, both Heiki as Lewis can't really develop a car properly. So McLaren needs an experienced driver with good development skills.

Scuderia Ferrari
Kimi Raikkonen (confirmed) & Felipe Massa (confirmed)

BMW Sauber F1
Nick Heidfeld (confirmed) & Robert Kubica (confirmed)

ING Renault F1
Fernando Alonso (confirmed) & Nelson Piquet Jr. (confirmed)

AT&T Williams F1
Nico Rosberg (confirmed) & Kazuki Nakajima (confirmed)


Red Bull Racing
David Coulthard (confirmed) & Mark Webber (confirmed)

Panasonic Toyota Racing
Jarno Trulli (confirmed) & Timo Glock (confirmed)

Scuderia Toro Rosso
Sebastian Vettel (confirmed) & Sebastien Bourdais (confirmed)

Honda Racing Team
Jenson Button (confirmed) & Rubens Barrichello (confirmed)

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Force India
Adrian Sutil (confirmed) & Options: Christian Klien, Vitantonio Liuzzi, Roldan Rodriguez, Giancarlo Fisichella

Super Aguri F1
Options: Takuma Sato, Anthony Davidson

Vodafone McLaren Mercedes
Lewis Hamilton (confirmed) & Options: Pedro de la Rosa, Heikki Kovalainen

Kovalainen doesn't deserve to be unemployed next year and he has to be in the running for the McLaren seat, at least he has to be higher up than Sutil on the shortlist. Very unlucky to lose his seat in Renault due to what must be Alonso's contractual small print.

If we go on pace and potential, the seat at is his and despite what people say, it would be an awesome opportunity to drive for McLaren at this stage.

I still think De La Rosa will get it to keep McLaren Vodaphone Mercedes key Spanish partners happy and also the car needs to be developed and he has proved very capable in this area as test driver.