The Spyker Formula One team will be renamed as Force India next season, new owner Vijay Mallya said on Saturday.
Sahara Force India do not depend now just on wet weather conditions to upset the big teams as the car is competitive enough in all conditions, team principal Vijay Mallya asserted on Monday.
Italian Giancarlo Fisichella is set to drive for the Force India Formula One team this season with compatriot Vitantonio Liuzzi taking the role of tester, sources said on Tuesday.
The deepening of the Formula One financial crisis prompted Force India boss Vijay Mallya to say that the sport's owners must fix the revenue sharing model among teams for the survival of smaller outfits like his.
The process, to be heard in the Royal Courts of Justice in London, could take months as the listing of a hearing will depend on the availability of judges and other factors.
Force India answered any lingering doubters on Saturday by roaring onto the front row of the Formula One starting grid for the second time in as many races. Team owner Vijay Mallya allowed himself to savour the moment after Germany's Adrian Sutil qualified second at the Italian Grand Prix.
Force India are making significant changes to their car in their quest for a first point in Formula One this weekend.
The team's new owner Indian billionaire Vijay Mallya said an Indian driver is an option but not an immediate priority.
Sahara Force India made it official that Mexican driver Sergio Perez will continue racing with the team in 2015 and beyond.
Vitantonio Liuzzi feels he is capable of impressing the Vijay Mallya-owned F1 team and winning a race seat by the end of the season.
Inconsistent double points finish has dented Sahara Force India's standing in the championship table, team principal Vijay Mallya conceded on Tuesday, expressing hope that both his drivers will end in the points bracket at the home Indian Grand Prix on Sunday.
The Vijay Mallya-owned team unveiled a brand new trackside venue in the paddock at the Circuit de Catalunya and plans to bring it to all the European races this season. With a glass-fronted facade and state-of-the-art facilities, the grid's newest team hopes the motorhome will set a fresh standard for paddock hospitality and rival McLaren's 'Brand Centre' and Red Bull's 'Energy Station' as the toast of the pit lane's glitterati.
The Silverstone-based team have finished fourth for the past two years
After 29 false starts, the Vijay Mallya-owned Force India finally nixed the hoodoo and scored their maiden Formula One points with Giancarlo Fisichella finishing second in the Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday.
Force India unveiled their new car on Tuesday, saying greater stability than other Formula One teams would boost their chances this season. Vijay Mallya's team finished ninth out of 10 last season but improved significantly in the closing stages and are bullish for 2010 despite missing a deadline to file their annual accounts.
Force India should have chosen an Indian driver to replace Giancarlo Fisichella when the Italian switched to Ferrari to help boost the build up for the nation's inaugural grand prix in 2011, Bernie Ecclestone has said.
The Force India Formula One team named Germany's Adrian Sutil and Italian Vitantonio Liuzzi on Friday in a 2010 line-up unchanged from the one that finished the season.
Mexican Sergio Perez will stay at Force India next year for a fourth straight season, the Silverstone-based Formula One team announced after Sunday's Malaysian Grand Prix.
Force India was given a tough lesson in the realities of F1 when both their cars failed to finish Sunday's Australian Grand Prix.
Force India's 2008 Formula One car made its track debut at Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya on Monday.
Sahara Force India will guard against complacency in Sunday's Brazilian Grand Prix, the final race of the 2013 Formula One season, as the team wants to finish sixth in the constructors' title and the drivers want to sign off on a high.
Britain's Paul di Resta and Germany's Nico Hulkenberg will race for Sahara Force India next season, the Formula One team said on Friday. Hulkenberg will replace compatriot Adrian Sutil at the Silverstone-based team.
Force India revealed an aggressive new look for the 2015 Formula One season on Wednesday with Mexican driver Sergio Perez telling his compatriots he expected his best season yet.
The Ferrari-powered car will not do any demonstration laps in the Indian city however with the first test run scheduled for Spain's Barcelona circuit on Feb. 25.
Sahara Force India enjoyed its second successive double points finish with Nico Hulkenberg finishing seventh and Sergio Perez ninth at their home race, British Grand Prix in Silverstone.
German Nico Hulkenberg will drive for Force India next season, the British-based Formula One team said on Tuesday.
Force India test driver Vitantonio Liuzzi will race for Team Italy in the Portugal leg of the A1 GP World Cup of Motorsport over the Easter weekend. A1 Team Italy pulled off a coup of sorts by signing Liuzzi, who is itching to get back to racing again.
Germany's Nico Hulkenberg will continue to race for the Force India next season, the Formula One team said on Monday.
Force India are now 99 points clear of fifth-placed Williams, and 165 behind third-placed Red Bull, with a maximum 86 remaining to be won.
Russian fertiliser group Uralkali said that by turning down its higher bid for the company, the administrators had denied the extra funds that would have accrued to the shareholder of Force India - Mallya's Orange India Holdings Sarl - which is subject to a freezing order issued by the UK's High Court in favour of his 13 creditor Indian banks, led by the State Bank of India.
Vijay Mallya remains India's top representative in world motorsport body FIA at a time when he is facing extradition to India over charges of unpaid debts and money laundering.
...He'd be running a successful aviation business, says Anjuli Bhargava.
Breaking his silence after nine years, Vijay Mallya said he may return to India if assured a fair trial.
Force India did not say who the other driver would be, but that is assumed to be Canadian Lance Stroll whose billionaire father Lawrence heads a consortium that now controls the Silverstone-based outfit.
Force India's 2015 Formula One car will not make its track debut until the third and final pre-season test in Barcelona some two weeks before the first race in Australia, the team said on Friday.
Felipe Massa and Ferrari won the race and deservedly so but we were clapping for India. And it felt incredible.
The Sahara Group has sought Supreme Court's permission to sell its shares in the Force India Formula 1 team as part of its effort to raise funds for the release of conglomerate's jailed chief Subrata Roy.
Nico Hulkenberg and Sergio Perez will start the season ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix from seventh and eighth on the grid courtesy a solid showing in the qualifying at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi on Saturday.
Mexican Formula One driver Sergio Perez described his Force India team's financial situation as 'critical' on Thursday, and recognised that his own future remained uncertain.
French driver Esteban Ocon will race for Force Indianext season after agreeing a multi-year deal, the Silverstone-based Formula One team said in a statement at the Brazilian Grand Prix on Thursday. Ocon replaces experienced German Nico Hulkenberg, who is moving to Renault, alongside Mexican Sergio Perez at a team co-owned by Indian tycoon Vijay Mallya and currently fourth in the championship. The 20-year-old is contracted long-term to Mercedes, Force India's engine provider, and made his debut this year with the lowly Manor team as a mid-season replacement for Indonesian Rio Haryanto.
