Heikki Kovalainen is a Finnish racing and rally driver, born in 1981, who competed in Formula One from 2007 to 2013. Supported early by the Renault Driver Development programme, he won the World Series by Nissan championship and was runner-up in GP2 before Renault made him test driver in 2006 and race driver in 2007, when he took second place in the Japanese Grand Prix. He joined McLaren in 2008 as Lewis Hamilton's teammate, won his first pole at Silverstone and his only race at the Hungaroring, becoming the 100th driver to win a Grand Prix. He then drove for Team Lotus and Caterham from 2010 to 2012 and stood in for Kimi Raikkonen at Lotus in 2013. He won the Super GT championship in Japan in 2016 with SARD.
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