Formula 1 News

Heikki Kovalainen ready for MP4-23 debut 

New McLaren Mercedes driver, Heikki Kovalainen, told the news agency SID that right after McLaren’s 2008 car (Mp4-23) official presentation on January 7 at the Unterturkheim Mercedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart he will fly to Jerez in order to take part to the scheduled tests on Tuesday. The Finn, was quoted saying: “I will fly from Stuttgart on Monday afternoon straight to Jerez, where the next day I will test the new car for the first time. I am certainly quite excited about it.”