Force India Unveils VJMO3 - 2010 F1

Recently Force India unveiled their new racing car for the 2010 F1 season. They had replaced their old one VJMO2 with VJMO3 which was launched by the Force India's chairman Vijay Mallya. He said the new VJMO3 will be suitable for all kind off race tacks for the 2010 F1 season. Mallya also added that their team will look forward for more podiums in this season. In the last season of F1 Force India team grabbed one podium finish, one pole position, and with 13 pts.

The whole team is confident about the more podium in this 2010 F1 season.

Drivers List:

Adrian Sutil and Vitantonio Liuzzi will drive for the team Force India.

Paul di Resta will be the test driver for the Force India team.

Adrian Sutil :

Age - 27(11th Jan 1983)

Born - Germany

Points - 6

No. of Races - 52

Vitantonio Liuzzi:

Age - 28(6th Aug 1981)

Born - Italy

Points - 5

No. of Races - 44

Paul di Resta - Test driver

Age - 23(16th April 1986)

Born - UK

VJMO3's Specifications:

Chassis - Carbon fibre composite monocoque with Zylon legality side anti-intrusion panels.

Front Suspension - Aluminium uprights with carbon fibre composite wishbones, trackrod and pushrod.  Inboard chassis mounted torsion springs, dampers and anti-roll bar assembly.

Rear Suspension - Aluminium uprights with carbon fibre composite wishbones, trackrod and pushrod.  Inboard gearbox mounted torsion springs, dampers and anti-roll bar assembly.

Wheel Base - 3500mm

Front Track - 1480mm

Rear Track - 1420mm

Overall Weight - 620kg with drivers

Overall Length - 4900mm

Overall Height - 950mm

Wheels - BBS forged wheels to Force India specification

Engine Supplier - Mercedes Benz V8 2.4-litre

Transmission - McLaren Racing 7-Speed, Semi-Automatic and e-shift

Lubricants - Mobil 1 Products

Spark Plugs - NGK

Clutch - AP Racing Carbon Clutch

Tyres - Bridegestone Potenza

Brake System - AP Racing

Brake Material - Carbone Industrie

Dampers - Penske

F1 ABU DHABI GRAND PRIX

Sebastian Vettel clinches his 4th title of this season by getting his podium in the inagural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

RACE RESULTS

1- Sebastian Vettel --- RBR-Renault

2- Mark Webber ------- RBR-Renault

3- Jenson Button ------- Brawn-Mercedes

4- Rubens Barrichello--- Brawn-Mercedes

5- Nick Heidfeld -------- BMW Sauber

6- Kamui Kobayashi ---- Toyota

7- Jarno Trulli ---------- Toyota

8- Sebastien Buemi ----- STR-Ferrari

F1 JAPANESE GRAND PRIX

FUJI TELEVISION JAPANESE GRAND PRIX held today in SUZUKA, Sebastian Vettel won the title by which he kept his world championship dream alive with 69 pts behind Jenson Button(85) and Rubens Barrichello(71), with two more races to go.

RACE RESULTS

Sebastian Vettel --- RBR-Renault

Jarno Trulli ----- Toyota

Lewis Hamilton ----- McLaren-Mercedes

Kimi Raikkonen --- Ferrari

Nico Rosberg ----- William-Toyota

Nick Heidfeld ---- BMW-Mercedes

Rubens Barrichello ---- Brawn-Mercedes

Jenson Button ----Brawn-Mercedes

F1 SINGAPORE GRAND PRIX RESULTS

Lewis Hamilton wins the Singapore Grand Prix, which was 11th title of his career. Jenson Button adds 4 pts to his championship points and leads the driver table with 84 pts followed by his team mate Rubens Barrichello with 69 pts.

Singapore Grand Prix Results
1--Lewis Hamilton of McLaren-Mercedes
2--Timo Glock of Toyota
3--Fernando Alonso of Renault
4--Sebastian Vettel of RBR-Renault
5--Jenson Button of Brawn-Mercedes
6--Rubens Barrichello of Brawn-Mercedes
7--Heikki Kovalainen of McLaren
8--Robert Kubica of BMW Sauber

F1 SINGAPORE GRAND PRIX QUALIFYING

In the Qualifying race for the Sunday's Singapore Grand Prix held today Lewis Hamilton gets his pole position which was 16th of his carreer.

Qualifying Results

Lewis Hamilton of McLaren-Mercedes

Sebastian Vettel of RBR-Renault

Nico Rosberg of Williams-Toyota

Mark Webber of RBR-Renault

Rubens Barrichello of Brawn-Mercedes
Fernando Alonso of Renault

Timo Glock of Toyota

Nick Heidfeld of BMW Sauber

Robert Kubica of BMW Sauber

Heikki Kovalainen of McLaren
Kazuki Nakajima of Williams-Toyota

Jenson Button of Brawn-Mercedes
Kimi Raikkonen of Ferrari
Sebastien Buemi of STR-Ferrari

Jarno Trulli of Toyota
Adrian Sutil of Force India-Mercedes
Jaime Alguersuari of STR-Ferrari.

Giancarlo Fisichella of Ferrari
Romain Grosjean of Renault

Vitantonio Liuzzi of Force India-Mercedes

F1 SINGAPORE GRAND PRIX FRIDAY PRACTICE SESSION

Singapore Grand Prix will be held on Sunday 27th Sep, in head of that 2 practice session held today. In the practice Sebastian Vettel pulls down the title defender Fernando Alonso by 0.274 sec. Its qualifying session will start by saturday 22:00 Hrs.

The practice results

Sebastian Vettel of RBR-Renault

Fernando Alonso of Renault
Heikki Kovalainen of McLaren

Nick Heidfeld of BMW Sauber
Jenson Button of Brawn-Mercedes

Mark Webber of RBR-Renault

Nico Rosberg of Williams-Toyota

Timo Glock of Toyota

Lewis Hamilton of McLaren-Mercedes

Robert Kubica of BMW Sauber

Rubens Barrichello of Brawn-Mercedes

Adrian Sutil of Force India-Mercedes

Jarno Trulli of Toyota

Kimi Raikkonen of Ferrari

Kazuki Nakajima of Williams-Toyota

Giancarlo Fisichella of Ferrari

Sebastien Buemi of STR-Ferrari
Vitantonio Liuzzi of Force India-Mercedes
Romain Grosjean of Renault
Jaime Alguersuari of STR-Ferrari.

F1 2010 RACE CALENDAR

The World Motor Sport Council had released the F1 race calendar for the 2010 season world championship. The FIA had included Korean Grand Prix and Canada Grand Prix in the 2010 calendar.

The inclusion of the Canada Grand Prix is subjected to race contract. The 2010 season starts from 14th march in Bahrain and gets completed in Brazil on 14th Nov,

The Race Calendar

14th March -- Bahrain(Sakhir)

28th March -- Australia(Melbourne)

4th April -- Malaysia(Sepang)

18th April -- China(Shanghai)

9th May -- Spain(Barcelona)

23rd May -- Monaco(Monte Carlo)

30th May -- Turkey(Istanbul)

13th June-- Canada(Montreal)

27th June-- Europe(Valencia)

11th July--Great Britain(Donington Park)

25th July -- Germany(Hockenheim)

1st August -- Hungary(Budapest)

29th August -- Belgium(Spa-Francorchamps)

12th September -- Italy(Monza)

26th September -- Singapore

3rd October -- Japan(Suzuka)

17th October -- South Korea(Yongam) --- Inagural Grand Prix

31st October -- Abu Dhabi(Yas Marina) --- Penultimate Round

14th November-- Brazil(Interlagos)

Canada Grand Prix is subject to the completion of contract negotiations with Formula One Management. If not completed then the Turkish Grand Prix will be moved to 6 June.

RENAULT F1 - SUSPENDED BAN FOR 2 YEARS

Renault F1 team was suspended for 2 years over the singapore conspiracy. Since Flavio Briatore Managing Director of Renault F1 team, Pat Symonds Executive Director of Engineering and Nelson Piquet team driver were found guilty by World Motor Sport Council(WMSC) over the last years Singapore GP conspiracy which caused a deliberate crash and benifited the race strategy of Fernando Alonso to win the Singapore GP last year.

The WMSC also announced that Renault F1 team should pay the cost of investigation, should give a significant contribution to FIA's safety work, Briatore should not involve in the FIA-sanctioned motorsport for life time, whereas five year ban for Symonds and Piquet was granted immunity from sanction for volunteering his evidence in the investigation.

GIANCARLO FISICHELLA- " I AM OVER THE MOON"

Giancarlo Fisichella signed with ferrari for the final five races of this F1 season. The 36 year old Italian driver has been released from the Force India's contract. He will remain as the reserve driver for the season 2010 for Ferrari. Since the accident of Massa, Ferrari were inneed of a experienced driver and they signed Fisichelle after his great finish in Belgian Grand Prix. While asking about this to Fisichella he said "Its true that it has always been an ambitious to driver for the ferrari and now I AM OVER THE MOON" and i thank Vijay Mallya who allowed me to do this.

FORCE INDIA - F1

Force India grabs their first podium finish in the F1, through Giancarlo Fisichella's victory in Belgian Garnd Prix. Fisichella finishes in 2nd positon and scored maiden points(8 points) for his Force India team. The Italian driver tried to win the race but finished in 2nd spot behind Kimi Raikkonen who got the lead through KERS(Kinetic Energy Recovery System) and fisichella finished without KERS with the time gap of less than a minute.

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Force India team was formed in oct 2007 by Vijay Mallya who bought the Spyker F1 team for 88 million Euro.