Adrian Sutil’s seventh place finish brought Force India back among the points again but Hispania driver Karun Chandhok’s hopes of a third successive finish were dashed after a tangle with Toro Rosso’s Jamie Alguersuari in the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday. Sutil drove an immaculate race, jumping from his 11th place in the starting grid [...]
Former Red Bull driver David Coulthard on Friday said Force India’s stunning show in the second half of the 2009 Formula One season is no fluke and the country should be proud of the Vijay Mallya-owned outfit’s spectacular achievements. The British driver, now a Formula One pundit, said he, like most others, did not expect [...]
Giancarlo Fisichella has been given the green light by Force India to race for Ferrari for the remainder of the season, with immediate effect. In a seemingly unbridled, altruistic act in the often cut-throat world of Formula One, Force India insisted that no money had changed hands and the switch had been made in good [...]
Force India came tantalizingly close to scoring its maiden point with Adrian Sutil and Giancarlo Fisichella benefiting a rung each from Jarno Trulli’s safety car infringement to finish ninth and 11th respectively in the Australian Grand Prix on Sunday. Sutil initially finished 10th and Fisichella 12th in the roller-coaster season opener but Toyota’s Jarno Trulli, [...]
Narain Karthikeyan has criticised Force India owner Vijay Mallya and has denied that he wants to join Mallya’s team. Mallya was recently said that Karthikeyan, who became the first Indian to drive in Formula One when he turned out for Jordan in 2005, and rising star Karun Chandhok were not good enough to drive for [...]
Flamboyant Indian business tycoon Vijay Mallya is pitched against Mexican billionaire and one of the world’s richest persons, Carlos Slim Helu, among others for buying the Formula One team of Japanese auto giant Honda, a report said on Monday. Honda put its Formula One team on the block earlier this month as it decided to [...]
Force India on Sunday announced an unchanged driver line-up for the 2009 Formula One Championship with Giancarlo Fisichella and Adrian Sutil continuing as the race drivers for the Vijay Mallya-owned outfit. Italian Vitantonio Liuzzi was also retained as the official test and reserve driver for the Formula One outfit. Following the outfit’s technical partnership with [...]
McLaren management said they might suggest preferred drivers for their new partner Force India but made it clear that they would never try to impose their will on the Vijay Mallya-owned Formula One outfit. Force India on Monday announced its new ‘ground-breaking partnership’ which would see the Silverstone-based outfit running on Mercedes engines and using [...]
Narain Karthikeyan of Team India finished 10th in both sprint and features at the A1 Grand Prix motorsport race on Sunday. Adam Carroll drove a faultless race to take A1 Team Ireland’s second series victory in the sprint race. On his A1 Team Netherlands debut, Robert Doornbos came home a comfortable second, while Danny Watts [...]
Force India owner Vijay Mallya terminated his Formula One team’s Ferrari engine contract a year early on Friday while ousting Colin Kolles as principal and Mike Gascoyne as technical head. In a major management shake-up, after the team failed to score a point and finished 10th in the constructors’ championship this year, Force India paved [...]
India will host a Formula One race for the first time in 2011, the sport’s commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone said on Friday. “We have India and here I can say that the grand prix will be inserted into the calendar in 2011,” Ecclestone said when asked about future destinations for the sport. Indian Olympic Association [...]
Following his impressive second season in the GP2 Series, Karun Chandhok bagged the “Best Driving Style” award in a glittering ceremony at the Sporting Club Monza. The 24-year-old iSport International driver ended the 20-race season in the top 10 in a year highlighted by victory at Hockenheim in Germany as well as podium finishes at [...]
Force India owner Vijay Mallya has reminded feuding factions inside his Formula One team that he pays the bills and calls the shots in the team, lest anyone forget. There has been talk of a rift between his senior staff but he said that the whole issue had been blown out of proportion and that [...]
Giancarlo Fisichella ran a faultless 114 laps in his Force India car and posted the third fastest time of the day to cap the outfit’s three-day Monza testing for the Italian Grand Prix. Fisichella continued the evaluation of set-ups and wing levels specifically for his home Grand Prix, and the Belgian grand prix before that, [...]
Vijay Mallya is confident Force India will be a much improved team in their second season in Formula One next year. Given the new technical regulations being introduced next season, Mallya is confident that his outfit will thrive when the playing field is leveled just that little bit, considering that they have lagged behind throughout [...]
Hamilton, fresh off victories in two consecutive races at Germany and England, was in the city for a promotional event organised by telecom giant Vodafone, and visited a Haroke go-karting track in suburban Powai. The ace driver, who is leading the drivers’ standings presently, also drove seven laps in kart around a truncated track to [...]
British race sensation and 2008 F1 world championship leader Lewis Hamilton is to visit Mumbai for a promotional tour on July 24. The 23-year-old Vodafone McLaren Mercedes driver will be driving a go kart for a lap at the Hakone track in Powai. “Hamilton will be giving Formula One enthusiasts a rare opportunity to meet [...]
Force India owner Vijay Mallya says his home country is on target to host its first Formula 1 grand prix in 2010, with construction of a new circuit due to begin in October this year. Mallya told a news conference at the German Grand Prix on Friday that the venue has now been chosen and [...]
Adrian Sutil made the most of the improved weather to clock the fifth quickest time on day two of the three-day pre-German Grand Prix test at Hockenheim. Continuing from where he had left it on a rain-marred day one, Sutil went on to complete 97 laps and his best, 1min 15.945, was once again just [...]
Force India achieved its target of a double finish in the French Grand Prix here today with Giancarlo Fisichella bringing his VJM01 home in 18th position while Adrian Sutil was just behind at 19th. This is the team’s first double finish since Bahrain. In a tough 70 lap race from which only one car retired, [...]