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Karthikeyan slams Mallya, Force India

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 Force […]

Force India retain their drivers

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-Mercedes, there […]

Mclaren not to impose drivers on Force India

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 gearbox […]

Force India ends contract with Ferrari

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 the […]

I am the boss: Mallya

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 he […]

Fisichella 3rd fastest in Monza testing

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, as […]

Force India could surprise next season: Mallya

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 this […]

India will host F1 in 2010:Mallya

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 construction […]

Sutil fifth fastest at Hockenheim

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 one […]

Force India achieves double finish

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, Fisichella […]

Force India inconsolable at Monaco

In what could have been a dream result for India’s first F1 team, Adrian Sutil took his Force India car as high as 4th place before he was banged in the back by world champion Kimi Raikkonen, ending his hopes and leaving his crying in the pits afterwards.

Kimi lost control of his Ferrari in the […]

Horrible Turkish Grand Prix for Force India

Force India’s bad luck continued in the 5th round of the F1 World Championship as they again failed to garner any points from the race.

Giancarlo Fisichella’s race was over at the first corner itself as he lost control and collided with Nakajima’s Williams. Adrian Sutil also damaged his car in the melee and had to […]

Fisichella hit with grid penalty

Force India driver Giancarlo Fisichella was hit with a three grid position penalty by the race stewards, when he was found to have exited the pit-lane at red lights, at the start of the first free practice session of the Turkish Grand Prix, on Friday.

This means that the Italian driver will now drop down three […]