It’s official: What was the Force India racing team for the 2018 Formula One racing season will now become the Racing Point team when the new season commences next month with the Australian Grand Prix on March 17, 2019. Canadian billionaire Lawrence Stroll acquired the Force India team in July, 2018 and initially renamed it ‘Racing Point Force […]
Canadian driver Lance Stroll will be moving from Williams to Force India in 2019. Stroll’s billionaire father, Lawrence, bought Force India in August, keeping the team from going out of business. The 20-year-old Stroll will be the junior teammate of Mexican Sergio Perez. Stroll’s two-year Formula One racing career has produced a single podium result […]
Formula One team Force India has cut a deal with a consortium of investors led by Lawrence Stroll – father of Williams’ driver Lance Stroll – that will save both the team after former director Vijay Mallya had resigned and the team was put into administration when driver Sergio Perez decided to take the legal […]
Lewis Hamilton finally won his first Formula One race of the 2018 racing season, but not in the dominant fashion he has become accustomed to over the years. Instead, it took a crash by both Red Bull drivers, a mistake by Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel and a tire puncture of his teammate Valtteri Bottas to have […]
Force India was next in line to show everybody their car for the upcoming 2017 Formula One racing season and did on live television in the UK…
Manor driver Esteban Ocon will move over to the Force India team for the 2017 Formula One racing season. Ocon – who was a mid-season replacement for Rio Haryanto – has not scored a single point in the 2016 season and currently sits in a last-place tie in the driver standings.
The other non-Formula One-race-winning Nico – Hulkenberg – is switching teams for 2017, moving from one bottom dweller team [Force India] to another [Renault] for the 2017 racing season. Hulkenberg, who has had 111 Formula One starts without a win – or even a podium placing – will be exchanging his higher placing Force India […]
Force India has asked Formula One chief crusty barnacle Bernie Ecclestone for an advance payment on 2016’s revenues, ostensibly to pay parts suppliers and avoid the fates of Caterham, Marussia and Lotus before them. Force India has already signed drivers Sergio Perez and Nico Hulkenberg to contracts for the 2016 season and Mexican native Perez […]
Force India’s Sergio Perez gives you a guided tour of this weekend’s 2015 Mexican Grand Prix in Mexico City…
With the distinct possibility looming that there could have been only 12 cars on the starting grid for the upcoming 2015 season-opening Formula One race in Australia, F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone has agreed to advance $10 million to each of the sport’s least-affluent teams – that would be Force India, Lotus and Sauber – as […]
It’s only a month or so late and they have missed all the tests, but Force India has finally released the VJM08 Formula One race car that will contend for back of the pack honors during the 2015 season. Force India missed both the Jerez and first Barcelona testing session with their 2015 car and […]
Due primarily to financial reasons, Force India has decided to abandon plans to participate in the first testing sessions for the 2015 Formula One racing season at Jerez, Spain, this weekend and will instead focus on testing sessions at Barcelona next month. Drivers for the Force India team in 2015 are Nico Hulkenberg and Sergio […]
It seems like the 2014 Formula One racing season just ended but already the pre-race schedule for the 2015 season is beginning to take shape. Everything begins in the first week of February – specifically, February 1-4 in Jerez, Spain – with the initial testing period for the teams. That will be followed by two […]
Sergio Perez has been signed to the Force India Formula One team for two more years. Perez, who had a podium finish this year in Bahrain and who finished fourth in today’s season-ending finale at Abu Dhabi will race through the 2016 season for the Force India team. Perez’s fourth-place finish at Abu Dhabi launched […]
The second day of the second testing session at the Sakhir track in Bahrain [but third overall in the season so far] was completed and Force India’s Sergio Perez repeated as fastest on the track with a recorded lap time of 1:35.57 – only marginally slower than his Day One fastest time which was still […]
The first day of the second testing session at the Sakhir track in Bahrain [but third overall in the season so far] was completed and Force India’s Sergio Perez was fastest on the track with a recorded lap time of 1:35.29. That was two seconds off the fastest time recorded so far this season at […]
Force India’s Nico Hulkenberg was fastest on the Sakhir track in Bahrain during the first day of the fledgling Formula One season’s second testing session. Hulkenberg was the only driver to post a sub-1:37 time on his laps and finished with a 1:36.8 to edge out Fernando Alonso from Ferrari at 1:37.8. Meanwhile, three-time defending […]
Since Force India didn’t have much “face time” in the 2013 Formula One racing season, typically finishing out of the top five places, they decided to get the marketing jump on the other teams in 2014 and became the first team to let everyone have a glimpse of their new car for the 2014 season […]