Team Force India is the name of Spyker for 2008
Yes! Yes!
There is the word ‘India’ in the proposed name for Spyker F1 team for the 2008 season. The team has requested the name change to the FIA - who are likely to approve it very soon.
So it is not Orange India, as many thought. Big deal. The word India is there, and we can all feel very happy and patriotic next year!
But even Team Force India sounds a bit silly, frankly. What’s with the ‘force’? For that matter, what was it the ‘Orange’ earlier? We have no clue.
There were also rumours that the team would be named Kingfisher. That too did not happen. Mallya who applied for the name change along with the other co-owner of the Spyker explained: “We decided against naming the team Kingfisher as we want our F1 thrust to have a national focus and it’s more important to position our country in the F1 world.”
So with the new name, and with rookie Adrian Sutil already signed up and performing well for Spyker in 2007, will an Indian driver make his appearance in the new Team Force India in 2008? Marketing and publicity-wise, it makes sense to have an Indian driver. Ad dollars in their millions are not going to flow in - from India - if an Indian driver is not there. I don’t think that Indian F1 fans would feel comfortable with their Formula One team having no Indian driver!
So that gives us Narain Karthikeyan and Karun Chandok. Chandok has been performing well in GP2 - considered a stepping stone to an F1 seat.
But Narain Karthikeyan is the experienced F1 driver among the two. He had a pretty unremarkable outing with Jordan-Midland in 2005. But then that car was really pathetic, and what was needed was a finish in every race. Not exactly what Karthikeyan is made of, many think. However, Bijoy of BSMotoring who has talked to him a lot, and seen him race and test, told me that Karthikeyan is an aggressive driver, in the mold of Fernando Alonso. And given a top car, no one can say that he could be a top-rung F1 driver.
So my vote is for Narain Karthikeyan. Spyker has been consistently improving towards the end of the 2007 season, and have picked a single valuable point in the Chinese GP 2007. Hopefully, their financial problems are now over with Mallya at the helm. And in 2008 season, we will see Team Force India battling it out in the mid-field. Hope, and pray!
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Team Force India is new name of Spyker F1…
Team Force India is the name of Spyker Formula One for 2008 under Vijay Mallya’s ownership….
Great idea. Shitty name.
wel…i’ve beeen consistently watchin f1 for abt years and loooookin at the spyker team which was earlier names as jordan in future it’d be force india…i think is goin under a big ups n down in past few years…….after changin from jordan to spyker i thought the would b competin in the mid field but i guess i was wrong so notin happnd…..in future the thing will not b changed until or unless the cars made upto the mark…
i was bit surprise when in year 05 jordan driver narain Kartikeyan….made a statement gimme a better i will give u the result…..i think this what the team force india neeeed…..am not a fan of NK but i think his presence was felt in 05 season …he made few goood take overs at those were really amazing for a rookie in F1….
i think nK and a better car will make a huge diffenrece in the team…he’s experienced toooo so new car will definetly help him alot
Great. 1st indian team. Thanks to vijay mallya for taking india to F1 world.
all bullllshit………….forece india will be worse that spyker or supah aguri
We Indian do have ability to make good things out of second hand & it is a best market strategy to make something new like recycleing from old things. Like not literally rising from ashes but back to glorious shine from no where. That’s why now we come across something called
Force India Club .
Some really Interesting information here. Even pics !
Dr. Vijay Mallya Rocks………
India is with you sir