Force India’s Tonio Liuzzi has been handed a five-place grid penalty for tomorrow’s British Grand Prix, after the FIA discovered the Italian had blocked Williams’ Nico Hulkenberg during qualifying today. Liuzzi will now start 20th, rather than 15th, promoting Petrov, Buemi, Alguersuari, Kovalainen and Glock. Hulkenberg described the issues Liuzzi caused him: “Traffic really destroyed [...]

Adrian Sutil (5th, 9th) “This morning was quite OK – out on the partly new circuit, which I have to say was quite nice to drive. The new section was reasonably difficult to learn with quite low grip and hard to find a good line through the esses in particular. The car behaved well in [...]

Silverstone is like the home Grand Prix of numerous teams, and Force India is no exception, as the team have their base right next to the circuit itself. Their German driver Adrian Sutil said that it will be fantastic to get some points on the weekend, but that the team have not done anything other [...]

The Spanish round of the Formula 1 season is famous for aerodynamic and mechanical upgrades on the cars, and this year is no different. Here is what you need to know about who is bringing what to Barcelona. McLaren McLaren have been talking up their changes for Barcelona, and are optimistic that the front row [...]

In the latter half of last season, Force India made an incredible jump from the back of the grid where they had been since entering the sport in 2008, to fighting for points courtesy of an aerodynamic update. This lead to an incredible pole position, followed up with a 2nd place finish at Spa-Francorchamps for [...]

Force India have today launched the VJM03 – their 2010 challenger. F0rce India design director Mark Smith said that the design process was a lot smoother than that of last season: “It’s been a lot smoother. From the very beginning we designed the VJM03 in full knowledge of the engine and gearbox that we would [...]

Force India are to join Red Bull and sit out the first pre-season test at Valencia, which starts on the 1st of February. Force India driver Adrian Sutil told the team’s website: “For sure the new rules are a big challenge for everybody, so to make a clear statement about how good we have been [...]

In the final day of young driver testing at the Jerez circuit in Spain, it was reigning British F3 champ Aussie Daniel Ricciardo in the Red Bull who set the quickest time – a 1.17.418s, despite having a premature end to the day. The engine in Ricciardo’s Red Bull gave up the ghost after completing [...]

The 2009 Formula 1 cars were back on track today as 12 of the hottest young chargers tried to top the timesheets. And it was Spanish driver Andy Soucek who took the spoils in the Williams-Toyota, with the fastest time of 1m19.158 from 87 laps of Jerez. It wasn’t all plain sailing for the current [...]

The new Mercedes team have today announced their two drivers for the Young Drivers Test at Jerez, Spain which will take place later this month – Mike Conway and Marcus Ericsson. Mike Conway, the 26 year old from Kent, England has previously won the Formula Renault and British F3 titles. This year he has competed [...]