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| Who? | What | Points | Action | Lap | |
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| 2011 – Australian Grand Prix | |||||
| Race | |||||
| Kovalainen, Heikki (Team Lotus) |
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1 pts | Decide the track was no longer in vogue and went off and back on in turn 1 |
17 | |
| Kovalainen, Heikki (Team Lotus) |
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2 pts | Stopped due to a water leak on lap 19 |
19 | |
| 2011 – Turkish Grand Prix | |||||
| Practice | |||||
| Kovalainen, Heikki (Team Lotus) |
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4 pts | DRS problem. |
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| 2011 – Spanish Grand Prix | |||||
| Race | |||||
| Kovalainen, Heikki (Team Lotus) |
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4 pts | Kovalainen crashed at turn 4. Putting Kovalainen out of the race, he ran wide at turn 4, went over the gravel and made contact with the tyre wall damaging the front left wheel and suspension. |
51 | |
| 2011 – Monaco Grand Prix | |||||
| Practice | |||||
| Kovalainen, Heikki (Team Lotus) |
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2 pts | Went off at St Devote. Kovalainen had a number of little offs but rejoined the track each time without any damage. |
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| 2011 – Canadian Grand Prix | |||||
| Race | |||||
| Kovalainen, Heikki (Team Lotus) |
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6 pts | Transmission Failure. |
29 | |
| Practice | |||||
| Kovalainen, Heikki (Team Lotus) |
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1 pts | Ran off on to the grass in turns 1 & 2 |
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| 2011 – British Grand Prix | |||||
| Race | |||||
| Kovalainen, Heikki (Team Lotus) |
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6 pts | Retired with Gearbox failure. |
3 | |
| 2011 – German Grand Prix | |||||
| Practice | |||||
| Kovalainen, Heikki (Team Lotus) |
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1 pts | Went off the track after losing control. |
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| Kovalainen, Heikki (Team Lotus) |
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4 pts | Suffered from a hydraulic problem in FP3 |
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| 2011 – Hungarian Grand Prix | |||||
| Race | |||||
| Kovalainen, Heikki (Team Lotus) |
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5 pts | Retired with a water leak. |
59 | |
| 2011 – Belgian Grand Prix | |||||
| Qualifying | |||||
| Kovalainen, Heikki (Team Lotus) |
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1 pts | Went off the track at turn 12. |
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| Practice | |||||
| Kovalainen, Heikki (Team Lotus) |
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1 pts | Lost control of his lost and span at the bus stop chicane |
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| Kovalainen, Heikki (Team Lotus) |
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1 pts | Ran over the grass at Les Combes to rejoin the track. |
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| 2011 – Italian Grand Prix | |||||
| Qualifying | |||||
| Kovalainen, Heikki (Team Lotus) |
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1 pts | Went off the track after out braking himself at Rettifilo. |
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| Practice | |||||
| Kovalainen, Heikki (Team Lotus) |
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4 pts | Had gearbox issues in free practice. Eventually Kovalainen stopped out on the track. |
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| 2011 – Singapore Grand Prix | |||||
| Practice | |||||
| Kovalainen, Heikki (Team Lotus) |
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11 pts | Kovalainen’s brakes caught fire after the Fin stopped before turn 18. The reason for the halt on the track was gearbox issues. |
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| 2011 – Abu Dhabi Grand Prix | |||||
| Practice | |||||
| Kovalainen, Heikki (Team Lotus) |
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1 pts | Outbraked himself into turn 11 and went off the track. |
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| Kovalainen, Heikki (Team Lotus) |
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1 pts | Span in turn 18. |
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| 2012 – Australian Grand Prix | |||||
| Race | |||||
| Kovalainen, Heikki (Caterham F1) |
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10 pts | Retired with suspension failure. |
41 | |
| Practice | |||||
| Kovalainen, Heikki (Caterham F1) |
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1 pts | Had a high speed off in turn 1 |
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| 2012 – Malaysia Grand Prix | |||||
| Practice | |||||
| Kovalainen, Heikki (Caterham F1) |
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1 pts | A small run wide led to a bump and a damaged front wing end plate. |
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| Other | |||||
| Kovalainen, Heikki (Caterham F1) |
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10 pts | Having been judged to have overtaken behind the safety car, was docked 5 grid places for this race. The Finn, who retired from the Australian Grand Prix after 41 of the 58 laps with a suspension problem, was punished by race stewards for passing two rivals. |
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| 2012 – Chinese Grand Prix | |||||
| Race | |||||
| Kovalainen, Heikki (Caterham F1) |
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5 pts | Had problems with the right read wheel following his second stop. Repitting to fix the issue ruined his race. He finish 23rd and last. |
32 | |
| Practice | |||||
| Kovalainen, Heikki (Caterham F1) |
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1 pts | Ran wide in FP2 exiting turn 10 |
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| Kovalainen, Heikki (Caterham F1) |
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1 pts | In the final corner, Kovalainen span his Caterham and recovered to rejoin. |
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| 2012 – Spanish Grand Prix | |||||
| Practice | |||||
| Kovalainen, Heikki (Caterham F1) |
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1 pts | Ran wide and over the gravel in turn 7 throwing gravel on the track. |
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| 2012 – Monaco Grand Prix | |||||
| Race | |||||
| Kovalainen, Heikki (Caterham F1) |
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3 pts | Running into Mirabeau, side by side with Perez, Kovalainen did not give an inch. Perez needed to take the escape road and Kovalainen damaged his front wing. Kovalainen eventually pitted for a new nose on lap 75. |
72 | |
| Practice | |||||
| Kovalainen, Heikki (Caterham F1) |
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1 pts | Locked up and cut across the chicane after the tunnel. |
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| Kovalainen, Heikki (Caterham F1) |
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15 pts | Had engine failure in the closing stages of FP1. The engine let go in the tunnel filling it with smoke. As Kovalainen put the car into neutral the rear axel locked and stopped the car on the exit of the tunnel. The session was red flagged as it was a dangerous situation with smoke and a car stranded. The session was not restarted. |
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| Kovalainen, Heikki (Caterham F1) |
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1 pts | Ran off the track at Mirabeau in the rain of FP2. |
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| 2012 – Canadian Grand Prix | |||||
| Practice | |||||
| Kovalainen, Heikki (Caterham F1) |
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9 pts | In the middle chicane on the track, Kovalainen lost control and slammed into the wall. Clipping the wall with the right rear, the car rotated to hit the wall with the front right wheel. This put pay to FP1 for Kovalainen and brought out the red flags to clear up the mess |
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| 2012 – European Grand Prix | |||||
| Practice | |||||
| Kovalainen, Heikki (Caterham F1) |
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1 pts | Ran wide in turn 12 |
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| 2012 – British Grand Prix | |||||
| Qualifying | |||||
| Kovalainen, Heikki (Caterham F1) |
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1 pts | Had a small off whilst trying to avoid his teammate, Petrov. |
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| 2012 – Hungarian Grand Prix | |||||
| Practice | |||||
| Kovalainen, Heikki (Caterham F1) |
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1 pts | Just after rain fell in FP2, Kovalainen had a moment and cut across the gravel at the chicane |
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| 2012 – Belgian Grand Prix | |||||
| Race | |||||
| Kovalainen, Heikki (Caterham F1) |
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1 pts | Span at the end of the Kemmel straight and carried on. |
7 | |
| Practice | |||||
| Kovalainen, Heikki (Caterham F1) |
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1 pts | Span in Les Combes in FP2 |
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| 2012 – Japanese Grand Prix | |||||
| Practice | |||||
| Kovalainen, Heikki (Caterham F1) |
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1 pts | Span in the Spoon curve as he started his FP2 session. |
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| Kovalainen, Heikki (Caterham F1) |
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1 pts | Went off the track in the second turn. |
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| Kovalainen, Heikki (Caterham F1) |
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1 pts | Ran wide in Degner |
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| 2012 – Indian Grand Prix | |||||
| Qualifying | |||||
| Kovalainen, Heikki (Caterham F1) |
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4 pts | Span off the track and out of the session with snap oversteer |
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