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Vijay Mallya

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Force India success not a fluke: David Coulthard

By thedarknight ⋅ October 10, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

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 [...]

Bangalore Royal Challengers

By thedarknight ⋅ March 22, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Team Owner: Vijay Mallya 2008 Record: Seventh Coach: Ray Jennings Squad: Kevin Pietersen (captain), Jacques Kallis (vice-captain), Rahul Dravid (ICON), Shivnaraine Chanderpaul, Ross Taylor, Wasim Jaffer, Gaurav Dhiman, Robin Uthappa, Mark Boucher (wicket-keeper), Shreevats Goswami, Dillon du Preez, Jesse Ryder, Cameron White, Virat Kohli, Praveen Kumar, Balachandra Akhil, Ranganath Vijay Kumar, Dale Steyn, Nathan Bracken, [...]

Kevin Pietersen named Royal Challengers captain

By thedarknight ⋅ March 22, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

Bangalore Royal Challengers owner Vijay Mallya on Saturday announced that England batsman Kevin Pietersen would replace Rahul Dravid as captain for the second season of the IPL. “I am pleased to announce that the captain of Bangalore Royal Challengers will be Kevin Pietersen,” Mallya said at a press conference on Saturday. “Jacques Kallis will take [...]

Buying Pieterson smartest move: Mallya

By thedarknight ⋅ March 3, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Indian Premier League team Bangalore Royal Challengers owner Vijay Mallya feels buying star England batsman Kevin Pietersen for a whopping USD 1.55 million made both business and cricketing sense. Mallya said investing a huge sum on Pietersen was a calculated move as the former England captain would strengthen his IPL team’s batting besides its “brand [...]

Pieterson may be captain of Royal Challengers

By thedarknight ⋅ February 11, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Former England skipper Kevin Pietersen could lead the Bangalore Royal Challengers in the second edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) after he was sounded out by the team’s coach Ray Jennings. The Royal Challengers finished second from bottom in the inaugural edition of the IPL under current skipper Rahul Dravid and owner Vijay Mallya, [...]

Dravid yet to be named skipper of Royal Challengers: Mallya

By thedarknight ⋅ January 12, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Bangalore Royal Challengers owner Vijay Mallya on Sunday made it clear that he had not yet finalised Rahul Dravid as captain of his Indian Premier League outfit. Reacting to media reports claiming Dravid had been retained as skipper of the side, a not-too-amused Mallya said, “Who said so? After all, I’m the boss of the [...]

Karthikeyan slams Mallya, Force India

By thedarknight ⋅ December 25, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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 [...]

Mallya in race to buy stake in Honda F1 team

By thedarknight ⋅ December 24, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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 [...]

Whole team not for sale: Mallya

By thedarknight ⋅ December 23, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Vijay Mallya has dismissed all speculations about the Bangalore Royal Challengers putting their entire team up for sale in the transfer window. A statement was issued by Mallya himself post speculations in some section of the Indian media on Monday evening that all his players except Rahul Dravid up for sale in the transfer window [...]

Force India retain their drivers

By thedarknight ⋅ December 15, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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 [...]

Mallya eyes Pieterson for Bangalore Royal Challengers

By thedarknight ⋅ December 12, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

England captain Kevin Pietersen’s stance to show solidarity with India after the Mumbai terror attacks is likely to earn him a lucrative offer from a seemingly impressed business tycoon Vijay Mallya for his IPL franchise Bangalore Royal Challengers. “I have always been interested in English cricketers and nothing has changed on that front. The fact [...]

Force India ends contract with Ferrari

By thedarknight ⋅ November 8, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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 [...]

I am the boss: Mallya

By thedarknight ⋅ September 11, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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 [...]

Fisichella 3rd fastest in Monza testing

By thedarknight ⋅ August 30, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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, [...]

Force India could surprise next season: Mallya

By thedarknight ⋅ August 13, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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 [...]

India will host F1 in 2010:Mallya

By chetannarula ⋅ July 20, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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 [...]

Force India achieves double finish

By chetannarula ⋅ June 23, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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, [...]

Pieterson in record IPL deal

By chetannarula ⋅ May 18, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The English Cricket Board has confirmed that England’s star batsman Kevin Pieterson has been offered a record deal by an un-named IPL Franchise. The highest fee paid for any player is for India’s ODI captain, MS Dhoni, for whom India Cements owned Chennai Super Kings paid around 1.5 million USD. The second highest player was [...]

Horrible Turkish Grand Prix for Force India

By chetannarula ⋅ May 12, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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 [...]

Mallya’s suggestions ignored by Dravid, Charu

By nj ⋅ May 12, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Vijay Mallya is so upset with his team’s dismal performance that he not only has fired Charu Sharma for his lack of management skills but also disclosed to the media that all his suggestions about team choices etc were complete ignored by his captain and team manager. He confirmed that he was very upset with [...]

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