Kovalainen: In pole

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Heikki Kovalainen is aiming for a maiden victory in the British GP on Sunday after gaining his first-ever F1 pole position.

The Finn posted a time half a second faster in qualifying than Mark Webber in second, with reigning world champion Kimi Raikkonen back in third.

While he is happy with the performance of his McLaren so far, Kovalainen knows it will not be easy in the race itself.

He said: "It has been going really well all weekend. We managed to put some more pace to the car last week and all week here we have been carrying on from that.

Spending time

"Obviously I have been spending time around Silverstone for many years of my life, I have family and friends around here so it's great to have first pole here and tomorrow I'll try and carry on from where we are today.

"Kimi and Mark are around me are both are good drivers, very competitive, so it will not be easy tomorrow.

"Our pace has been very good all week and I am confident our strategy will be a strong one as well and tomorrow the target is to win the grand prix."

The drivers faced difficult conditions in qualifying but Kovalainen managed to come good.

He added: "It was quite difficult conditions especially in the beginning of first session.

Dark sky

"There was quite a dark sky and it was possible to get some rain and on my first run in Q1 I had a bit of traffic and didn't manage a good lap so had to do it before the rain came.

"Then the second part of qualifying went much better and in the last part we had quite difficult conditions. I think the wind picked up.

"The first run I was all over the place but the second run I put it together much better. I am very happy about it."