
For quite some weeks and guessing who will go in this team and finally its been announced, Giancarlo Fisichella will race alongside Adrian Sutil this year at Force India Ferrari and Tonio Liuzzi a former Toro Rosso driver, will be the test and reserve driver.
Team co-owner Vijay Mallya stated “We have all been familiar with the sport of Formula One racing but I always got the impression that motor racing was an elitist sport and out of reach of common India. The glitz and glamour was considered to be out of reach of a developing country as India. We will not produce any miracles in 2008 but we will demonstrate that we are going in the right direction - up the grid,” he continued. “By 2010 when India hosts its first GP, Force India will rightfully occupy a place on the podium. I think we will be quicker than we were in 2007, but then so will other teams...”
Mallya confirmed that there will be a big increase in the team budget since the last year the team budget was 70 million (US) dollars and now in 2008 it will be 120 million dollars. He also stated that by selecting Giancarlo Fisichella and Adrin Sutil was nothing against any Indian driver like Narain Karthikeyan has won his first A1 GP race and Karun Chandhok is in another GP2 year before considering a move to Formula One. The team might be using the existing chassis, but will be using its own wind tunnel in Aerolab
Source@ F1-live
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