Realistic Expectations for Force India in 2016 Formula Season

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Published: January 11, 2016

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Force India met or exceeded most of their expectations in the 2015 Formula One season. After a slow start, the team made huge strides throughout the middle part of the year and ended the season with a car capable of challenging Red Bull and Williams.

Though their total points haul of 136 was fewer than they had scored in 2014, Force India finished fifth in the constructors' championship—their best-ever final position.

This gave the team their largest-ever share of the sport's commercial revenues and ensured they would remain a part of the influential Strategy Group for at least one more year.

The Force India of 2016 will retain the main ingredients of their success in 2015. They'll still have the class-leading Mercedes power unit, drivers Sergio Perez and Nico Hulkenberg are staying put and Andrew Green will remain at the head of their technical department.

Can they repeat, or even better, their 2015 performance?



Force India made a difficult start to the 2015 season after a string of issues over the winter. Chief among these was a problem with cashflow, revealed by deputy team principal Bob Fernley before the start of the year.

Speaking to Sky Sports F1, he admitted:

We have had cashflow issues, there is no question about that, our suppliers were very badly hit by the demise of Caterham and Manor—and are still suffering. We have a very high expenditure at a time of low incomes.

It’s very tough. Yes, we will survive but want to survive competitively. It’s tough for all the independent teams—ourselves, Sauber and even Williams.

Their preparations for the new season were also adversely affected by a decision to switch from using their own wind tunnel to using Toyota's. The time it took Force India to transfer their programme over meant they were behind the curve when the season began. They missed the first pre-sea...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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