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Kovalainen bucks the trend

Sat, 14 Mar 12:51:24 2009

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Heikki Kovalainen bucked this winter's trend by actually putting on a significant amount of weight, albeit muscle.

While most of his rivals shed kilograms ahead of the introduction of heavy Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems, the McLaren Mercedes driver revealed he now weighs nearly five kg more than he did one year ago.

Kovalainen trained hard with a new physio and intentionally wanted more muscle mass, the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat reports. His centrepiece exercise was cross-country skiing.

"I now weigh 4.5 kilograms more than I did at the same time last year," said Kovalainen, who now weighs 65kg.

The introduction of KERS makes it an unusual time for a driver to put on weight, but Kovalainen insists the move was right for him.

"Personally I feel considerably better now. I have no pressure to lose weight," he said.

 

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  1. PQ I got the same with my Bernie comments

    IZZYF1

    From mike B, on Tue 17 Mar 8:52PM

  2. lol - at least he ain't as fat arsed as Mansell and­ can actually fit into the car - Ron still laughs over­ that in new F1 magazine.

    From abtscot, on Sun 15 Mar 9:48PM

  3. he's dead weight no matter how heavy is..

    From Pablo from Bolivia, on Sat 14 Mar 6:14PM
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    I'm betting they told him to do it.

    From pHilo, on Sat 14 Mar 4:08PM

  5. If Kovalainen does well this season, next year­ we'll have first twenty stone driver in a F1 car.­ lol

    From PQ, on Sat 14 Mar 4:03PM

  6. Heavy weight must be a UR L. Vell I vonder if vas­ training mit Ahnold.

    From pHilo, on Sat 14 Mar 4:02PM

  7. Thanks seventy. I was in fact being ironic lol

    From markrose260, on Sat 14 Mar 3:17PM

  8. yep adrian w, i got an "invalid comment" on­ other page and all I did was say Bernie was greedy. lol

    From PQ, on Sat 14 Mar 1:30PM

  9. Think they mean "trend". Lets just hope kovi­ can show us what he's got this year. Lewis needs a­ decent wing man this year. Gunna be a hard year for­ maclaren fans otherwise.

    From GARETH, on Sat 14 Mar 9:29AM

  10. Whatever it is mark, he's "bucked" it :-)

    From Mike, on Sat 14 Mar 8:10AM

  11. I wonder what a 'tend' is. Shoot the headline­ writer someone.

    From markrose260, on Sat 14 Mar 7:23AM

  12. 65 kilos!
    Is he human or munchkin?

    From Count Louis Zborowski, on Fri 13 Mar 10:57PM

  13. I have a Mastiff that weighs that much.

    From tifoso, on Fri 13 Mar 9:52PM

  14. My dog, that is.

    From tifoso, on Fri 13 Mar 9:47PM

  15. My dod weighs more

    From tifoso, on Fri 13 Mar 9:46PM

  16. Well at least its good weight! Perhaps now he will have­ the strength to get on the podium a little more often­ this year...

    From tifosi4eva, on Fri 13 Mar 5:58PM

  17. and on a more interesting and important note, Alonso is­ said to have the biggest hair on the grid. Is this the­ best sort of story that pre season can throw up?

    From Cashel, on Fri 13 Mar 5:51PM

  18. They told him they could only afford one dynamo because­ of 'Cost Cutting' and the KERS system is­ attached to bicycle pedals in Kovi's car. All his­ extra muscle is on his legs.

    From Neil M, on Fri 13 Mar 5:20PM

  19. I don't remember being that weight lucky­ him

    IZZYF1

    From mike B, on Fri 13 Mar 4:13PM

  20. wtf is invalid about the word "heavyweight"?

    From the real adrian, on Fri 13 Mar 3:57PM
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