Good luck Heikki...you're going to need it...bucketloads, in order not to die of desperation when you'll see what's going on in the Woking based team.

Antonio, Tunbridge Wells, UK

Poor Heikki, he will be backstabbed by his team after the first time he overcomes Hamilton. Then Ron Dennis will smile while he tells the press that MacLaren is giving his pilots an "equal treatment". Ron Dennis, that gentleman.

Domingo, Piedras Blancas, España

The good thing is that at last Mclaren has come clean and admited that all the equality policy was rubbish.

jordi, bournemouth, uk

Perhaps Kovalainen has bitten off more than he can chew. With RD on one side and LH on the other he's going to be working next to a couple of snakes.

0 wins between him and LH is what I expect in 2008, as the Ferrari design elements have been removed from the 2008 car, and Alonso isn't there anymore to do LH's setups. I believe this year will be about Ferrari, Renault (as was the case before the spygate) plus Honda and Toyota.

Tetsuya, Tokyo, Japan

Kovalainen should let Hamilton take care of all the talking off the track--something at which the young Briton excels.

It would be wise for the Finn to do his talking on the track, just as his predecessor at McLaren did during the second part of the season, and we all saw that his results got much better.

4 wins across the two of them is all I expect in 2008, but we'll see.

Michel Angstadt, Serranillos del Valle, (Madrid) Spain

Hamilton's already seen off a double world champ - brave noises Heiki!

Can't wait to see all the performance Alonso will bring back to Renault though; if the continental fans are to be believed all of McLaren's pace had come from Renault with the Spaniard. Mmmmmmm.....

Anwar Shah, Bromsgrove,

Heikki - Do you not like yourself? You are obviously going to be playing second fiddle to him. If Fernando couldn't get equality or preference as a WORLD CHAMPION obviously you're not.

Debbie, Chesterfield, England

McLaren, who made it clear that the team’s principal target next year will be to make Hamilton world champion. “Lewis is already McLaren’s main focus,” Whitmarsh said.

Well, that was this way last year too, with Fernado the man who make Maclaren come back to a winning position, whitout FA on board, neither MC or HAM would have reach anything last year. So with KOVA on board, whom is nobody in F1, this coming season will be the same for shure.

Any pilot who wants to race a Maclaren must know where he must be. As the number 2.

FA where able to race the last races, because he have it writen in his contract, if that wheren't this way FA haven't had raced the last part of the season, (he signed to drive all the races of the season) what wasn't in contract was an equal treatament

That was the only equal treatament, having a car to race, but not the best strategies, to have a turtle to race in Brasil, etc.

I hope, even I know that's imposible, that KOVA may have real equal treatmanet.

Jose Balseiros, Oviedo,

I think anyone is going to have problems with hamilton. Didn´t see a queue of drivers wanting the job!

Victor, santiago,

Hamilton is trouble for anyone employing him.we will see it next year.

E.Ovelar, Sydney, Australia

Where do you get your rumours from? It seems you are making up your own rumours. The rumours I heard were that Hamilton DID NOT WANT Pedro as team mate as he wants someone who will push him to bring out his best although the team wanted Pedro to cut their already thin budget. Also what is not rumours is that Hamilton's WISH LIST not too long ago WAS Heikki, Nico Rosberg and Adrian Sutil. So why should he not be delighted when he gets his wish? Get your rumours right!

Ed, London,