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Kovalainen sad to see points run end

At Shanghai Heikki Kovalainen's remarkable run of points-scoring finishes ended with a tough weekend for the Renault team just a week after the Finn finished second in Japan. Heading to this weekend's Brazilian Grand Prix Kovalainen is more hopeful.

"It was a tough afternoon for the whole team, and disappointing not to score points because we had the pace to do it," he said of the race in China. "But I made a mistake in qualifying, our strategy didn't work out in the early laps, and that was enough to mean we didn't score. But as always, you have to find the positives: the car was actually pretty quick on Sunday, we made the right choices in reacting to the conditions, and the reliability was perfect once again. I have finished every race this year, and that's something we are all proud of."

Looking ahead to Brazil he added, "This is our last chance of the year to show what we can do. You are only as good as your last race in Formula 1, so it is important to score a good result to take into the winter, and hopefully give the team some momentum too. This has been a tough year for everybody at Renault, but we have made progress in the last few weeks and not been able to show it in dry race conditions. Brazil is a circuit where the team has had a lot of success in recent years and while that doesn't mean anything for 2007, maybe it can bring us a bit of luck. I hope we can have a normal race, take the fight to BMW and finish the season with a strong, aggressive drive."

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