Kovalainen delighted with the T128

After a somewhat complicated first year at the wheel of a T127 designed in record time, Heikki Kovalainen is much more optimistic now than he was last year at this time.

"I don't want to make any predictions right now. explains the Finn on the Team Lotus podcast. You don't know what other people are doing. Sometimes we are four seconds faster than the Red Bull, and sometimes they lap six seconds faster than us. The only thing I can say is that the pre-season testing sessions went much better than last year. We have always been in the middle of the timesheet, and we are much closer to the cars ahead of us than in 2010. I don't think we can draw any conclusions at the moment. But from what I feel, what I see and what I hear in the team, we are in much better shape than last year, and the car seems much better. »