Andreas Bakkerud will replace Heikki Kovalainen at Jenson Button’s JBXE team for the remainder of the Extreme E season, starting with this weekend’s Hydro X Prix in Scotland.Kovalainen made his debut in the all-electric off-road series last time out at the Desert X Prix in Saudi Arabia, driving alongside Hedda...

Grand Prix winner Heikki Kovalainen will race for Jenson Button’s JBXE team in Extreme E this year alongside the returning Hedda Hosas.Kovalainen, winner of the 2008 Hungarian Grand Prix and a veteran of 112 GPs joins Formula 1 contemporaries Nico Rosberg, Lewis Hamilton, and Button in associating with the all-electric...

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Former McLaren Formula 1 driver Heikki Kovalainen has won Japan's Super GT Championship. The Finn, along with Lexus co-driver Kohei Hirate, clinched the title with victory in the season finale at Motegi.Unusually, the final event of the championship was a double-header, with a race added in place of the one...

Reigning Formula Renault Eurocup champion Jack Aitken says his new status as a protege of the Renault Formula 1 team will not add any pressure to his rookie GP3 Series campaign.The 20-year-old, who also won the second-level Formula Renault ALPS series in 2015, steps up to GP3 this year with...

Former Formula 1 driver Heikki Kovalainen has admitted that he was "too loyal" to Caterham in a move that ultimately finished his grand prix career.The Finn joined the outfit when it entered F1 as Lotus Racing in 2010, and he stayed with it until the end of 2012, when he...

If you ever thought of buying a (somewhat) state-of-the-art Formula 1 car or elements of an F1 race team, here's a rare chance: Remaining assets of the bankrupt Caterham team will be auctioned off by UK auctioner Wyles Hardy & Co., with online bidding set for Wednesday and Thursday, March...

Heikki Kovalainen is hopeful that his deal to race for the Team SARD Lexus squad in Japan's Super GT Championship could lead to a long-term sportscar future with Toyota.The 2008 Hungarian Grand Prix winner sat out 2014 after missing out on a full-time F1 comeback with Caterham but he will...

The FIA has revealed more details about the circumstances that led up to Jules Bianchi's horrific Formula 1 accident at the Japanese Grand Prix.During a media briefing at the Russian GP on Friday, F1 race director Charlie Whiting ran through closed-circuit TV footage of the minutes before Bianchi crashed into...

Heikki Kovalainen made his DTM testing debut for BMW at Lausitz on Thursday.Kovalainen took the wheel of BMW's DTM-spec M4 on the fourth and final day of its test at the German circuit, the Formula 1 race winner completing a series of long runs on both the prime and option...