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Kovalainen had mid team offers before Caterham deal
Aug.22 Caterham's Heikki Kovalainen has revealed he could have avoided racing straight to the back of the grid after losing his top McLaren seat at the end of 2009.
In fact, the Finn signed on with the (then Lotus) Caterham team, whose only real opponents in the last three seasons have been the other 2010 startups Marussia and HRT.
'I had other options, but not with any big teams – teams that were in the middle of the pack,' Kovalainen told Brazil's Totalrace.
'I didn't see any great opportunity and so I preferred to go with a brand new team,' he added.
It is a vastly different approach to that which might be taken by Felipe Massa, who after seven seasons with fabled Ferrari has...
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