Heikki Kovalainen comments on Finland’s F1 success

According to Kovalainen, the passion for motorsport and the Finnish mentality have helped the small country in its amazing F1 history.

Formula Ones the 2025 season threatens to become almost historically rare for Finns. Valtteri Bottas was left without a permanent driver’s place, so this year there will probably not be a Finn on the F1 gp starting grid.

If Bottas is not alerted to his role as Mercedes reserve driver for the GP start, it will be the first season without a Finnish driver since 1988. Autosport website updated the matter in his article, also wondering how amazingly huge the F1 history of a small country is (three world champions, five gp winners, seven podium finishers).

Autosport talked Heikki Kovalaina, one of those five Finnish GP winners, who reflects on the background behind the Finnish success and highlights a couple of interesting points.

First of all, the passion for motorsport: how Finland is more famous for its great success in rallying than for its formula skills. 43-year-old Kovalainen remembers how he was able to admire as a child and youth Mika Häkkinen along with rally legends Juha from Kankku and Tommi from Mäki.

“All of them were in the news a lot, you couldn’t avoid seeing them. Maybe it influenced a lot of people like me – I saw the news, I saw the cars, I saw the speed, and maybe that’s where that passion for motorsport grew.”

Autosport reminds that since Bottas’ F1 debut in 2013, no Finn has come close to making it to the series. Kovalainen admits that there is no watertight reason for that. But certain things may have played a role.

“If you compare it to my time when I joined the Renault team’s junior program, then the biggest thing I got was financial support. In other words, they paid for all my driving in the junior classes”, says Kovalainen.

“From what I understand nowadays, even if you are selected for the junior program of Ferrari or Mercedes or someone else, most (young people) have to bring some of their own budget. And that’s a pretty big obstacle. The budgets are big and Finland is not a big market, especially nowadays when the economy is in trouble. It’s hard to raise money for something like racing. That’s probably part of the reason.”

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