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Salo tells Lotus to replace Raikkonen with Kovalainen
Fellow Finn Mika Salo has nominated Heikki Kovalainen as the ideal replacement at Lotus for his surgery-bound countryman Kimi Raikkonen.
The conventional wisdom is that Lotus will simply promote its reserve driver, 2012 GP2 champion Davide Valsecchi, into Raikkonen's seat for the remaining two grands prix of the season.
Italian Valsecchi, however, is a rookie, but Enstone based Lotus is locked in a lucrative and – given its financial problems – crucial battle for points and prize money in the constructors' world championship's upper places.
'I have thought about this for a while,' former F1 driver Mika Salo told the Finnish broadcaster MTV3, 'and I think getting Heikki would...
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