Comments on: Team Preview: Force India - The Team With A Theme http://badgergp.com/2010/02/force-india/ Formula 1 isn't boring... Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:36:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Adam Milleneuve http://badgergp.com/2010/02/force-india/#comment-2333 Adam Milleneuve Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:52:59 +0000 http://www.f1badger.com/?p=13392#comment-2333 Thanks for the feedback Mr G.King - glad you like the Benson's articles - he's been welcomed into the Sett with open arms after he produced some quality proper Badgerstyle writing. Cheers for the comment too - we like comments! Adam - Editor Thanks for the feedback Mr G.King - glad you like the Benson's articles - he's been welcomed into the Sett with open arms after he produced some quality proper Badgerstyle writing.

Cheers for the comment too - we like comments!
Adam - Editor

]]> By: Jimmy Von Weeks http://badgergp.com/2010/02/force-india/#comment-2332 Jimmy Von Weeks Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:42:33 +0000 http://www.f1badger.com/?p=13392#comment-2332 I'm wondering how running Paul di Resta in Friday practice will work out for the two race drivers. It'll definitely be great for Paul, and best of luck to him, but Liuzzi/Sutil might suffer from losing a session on Friday morning. Interesting to see how Force India manage this one. I'm wondering how running Paul di Resta in Friday practice will work out for the two race drivers. It'll definitely be great for Paul, and best of luck to him, but Liuzzi/Sutil might suffer from losing a session on Friday morning. Interesting to see how Force India manage this one.

]]> By: G.King http://badgergp.com/2010/02/force-india/#comment-2331 G.King Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:40:59 +0000 http://www.f1badger.com/?p=13392#comment-2331 Benson Jamichello, you may well be my favourite writer on here. I shall be watching your progress very closely, as always...... Benson Jamichello, you may well be my favourite writer on here.
I shall be watching your progress very closely, as always......

]]> By: Dave H http://badgergp.com/2010/02/force-india/#comment-2330 Dave H Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:29:33 +0000 http://www.f1badger.com/?p=13392#comment-2330 I think Liuzzi isn't given enough credit, especially here at the Sett. He'd done more than enough to earn a continuing race seat at Toro Rosso, but was moved aside. A Williams deal fell-through when Toyota said that their engine only came with Nakajima attached and Vitantonio was relegated to third driver roles. Unlike some of the grid's third drivers he had been doing racing to keep his skills sharp (the now-dead Speedcar series) and picked up a few wins along the way against names like Jacques Villeneuve, Jean Alesi, Johnny Herbert and er... Gianni Morbidelli. Sure, looking at results he did struggle in his races for Force India but he was a lot closer to his teammate than the results show; in Italy he had the pace for a podium until the driveshaft/engine let him down. Sutil we already know enough about; quick but tendency to throw it in the wall or balls-up his chances somehow. but it does endear him to people because he's more of an old-style F1 driver: Less of a robot, more of a human being.* He made the same number of driving-errors when the pressure was on last year that he did in 2008 so at least he's levelled-out on that front, he's very good in the wet despite falling off in Malaysia last year so he could be threatening the Top 5 if the weather's in his favour. As for the car.. it's wait and see. We know the engine is the best on the grid, but if the car doesn't have the chassis to get the most out of it then they'll be fighting Williams and Renault all season for midfield honours. and 4 to 1 points. It's especially tricky this year since we've potentially got 5 teams with front-running cars and everyone else is hoping for mechanical breakdowns in order to score points. I'm expecting them to be clearly ahead of the new teams and Toro Rosso, and also to have the edge on Williams + Renault. I'm not seeing podiums for them unless the VJM03 is very special.. and it doesn't really look it to my eyes. They need something that works on high-downforce as well as low-downforce tracks this year. * I personally like seeing humans driving the cars over metranomic robots delivering laptime after laptime within the same two tenths of a second. It's why i had nothing but respect for Hamilton binning it in Monza. He took his brain out for the last stint and buggered up the simulation part of racing. I think Liuzzi isn't given enough credit, especially here at the Sett. He'd done more than enough to earn a continuing race seat at Toro Rosso, but was moved aside. A Williams deal fell-through when Toyota said that their engine only came with Nakajima attached and Vitantonio was relegated to third driver roles.
Unlike some of the grid's third drivers he had been doing racing to keep his skills sharp (the now-dead Speedcar series) and picked up a few wins along the way against names like Jacques Villeneuve, Jean Alesi, Johnny Herbert and er... Gianni Morbidelli.
Sure, looking at results he did struggle in his races for Force India but he was a lot closer to his teammate than the results show; in Italy he had the pace for a podium until the driveshaft/engine let him down.

Sutil we already know enough about; quick but tendency to throw it in the wall or balls-up his chances somehow. but it does endear him to people because he's more of an old-style F1 driver: Less of a robot, more of a human being.*
He made the same number of driving-errors when the pressure was on last year that he did in 2008 so at least he's levelled-out on that front, he's very good in the wet despite falling off in Malaysia last year so he could be threatening the Top 5 if the weather's in his favour.

As for the car.. it's wait and see. We know the engine is the best on the grid, but if the car doesn't have the chassis to get the most out of it then they'll be fighting Williams and Renault all season for midfield honours. and 4 to 1 points. It's especially tricky this year since we've potentially got 5 teams with front-running cars and everyone else is hoping for mechanical breakdowns in order to score points.
I'm expecting them to be clearly ahead of the new teams and Toro Rosso, and also to have the edge on Williams + Renault. I'm not seeing podiums for them unless the VJM03 is very special.. and it doesn't really look it to my eyes. They need something that works on high-downforce as well as low-downforce tracks this year.

* I personally like seeing humans driving the cars over metranomic robots delivering laptime after laptime within the same two tenths of a second. It's why i had nothing but respect for Hamilton binning it in Monza. He took his brain out for the last stint and buggered up the simulation part of racing.

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