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Schumacher approached for Raikkonen's seat
Heikki Kovalainen may only have been Lotus' third choice as the 2013 successor for surgery-bound Kimi Raikkonen.
The Enstone based team will announce on Thursday that Finn Kovalainen, who has been Caterham's ‘Friday' driver this season, will race in Austin and Brazil at the wheel of Raikkonen's number 7.
But it emerged this week that Nico Hulkenberg was also approached by Lotus, who found the German locked into the rest of his contract at Sauber.
And Michael Schumacher's manager Sabine Kehm told Bild newspaper that the seven time world champion was also approached by Lotus.
'It's not unusual that he was asked,' she is quoted as saying.
'Michael would be fit enough, but he is...
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