Sutil and Fisichella to start from last rows at Turkish GP

ISTANBUL: Both the Force India cars will start at the last rows of the grid at Sunday's Turkish Grand Prix with Adrian Sutil starting at 19th followed by team-mate Giancarlo Fisichella.
Fisichella finished 19th at the qualifying session after clocking his fastest lap with a timing of 1:27.807 but will have to start from the end because of three grid place penalty handed to him on Friday.
Sutil got the 20th position at qualifying after registering his fastest lap with a timing of 1:28.325 but will start ahead of Fisichella. The Indian team oozed confidence of doing well despite the low qualifying slots.
"Actually, I had quite a good qualifying and we made a big improvement from practice. My car in the free practice had a few problems with the balance so we did a few changes between the sessions and it was better for the afternoon," Sutil said.
"On the last set of tyres I couldn't improve my time and didn't get the grip I expected and locked up into turn 12, but it was not so bad overall. From a performance perspective, to better to the practice pace and to get close to the rest of the field is positive," Sutil added.
Fisichella was also satisfied with the team' show. "I did a clean lap and the team did a good job with the car. The balance is not bad, but we just need more grip and more downforce to move forward with the grid position. I am looking forward to a better race tomorrow," he said.
Mike Gascoyne, chief technical officer, praised Fisichella and said team will be competitive in the race.
"I think in Giancarlo's case he got the most out of the car today considering his penalty. Adrian had a small lock up on his last run which cost him some time, but overall that is where the car is on this type of track. We've shown that our race pace can be more competitive than the one lap pace, so we can certainly look to race the cars in front of us tomorrow," he said.

India will find a home-grown Hamilton, says Mallya

India will produce a Formula One driver like Lewis Hamilton [Images] one day but it will take time, Force India team owner Vijay Mallya [Images] said on Friday.
Asked in a team interview whether he was actively looking for an Indian driver or Indian personnel, the flamboyant billionaire said he simply wanted the best regardless of nationality.
"I have no doubt that in a population of 1.2 billion people we will find a Lewis Hamilton somewhere, but this will take time and experience," he added.
"That's why we have Giancarlo Fisichella at the moment, but we are willing to invest in finding Indian talent and nurturing him or her to the highest levels."
McLaren's Hamilton took Formula One by storm in his rookie season last year when he finished overall runner-up, a point behind Ferrari's [Images] Kimi Raikkonen [Images].
The 23-year-old Briton, Formula One's first black driver, started this season by winning in Australia and was third in Spain last weekend.
Ferrari-powered Force India, formerly Spyker, have yet to score a point in their four races but Italian Fisichella finished 10th in Barcelona.
Mallya said that result had lifted the team's spirits but qualifying remained a disappointment, with neither Fisichella nor German team mate Adrian Sutil managing to break out of the slowest group.
"We haven't dropped back but we do need to sort out our qualifying pace, which is our Achilles' heel at the moment," he said, looking forward to Turkey next week.
"This is just the start for us though. Nobody expected us to be as competitive as we are. We've been on the grid for little over five months and look how far we have come.
"No-one expects miracles but the fact we have qualified in the top 17, the fact we finished in the top 12 in Bahrain and Malaysia and now in the top 10 in Spain shows we are a genuine midfield contender now, not a backmarker."

Massa takes pole position again in Turkey

Ferrari's [Images] Felipe Massa [Images] took pole position at the Turkish Grand Prix for the third year in a row on Saturday.
Brazilian Massa, who has won at the Istanbul Park circuit for the past two years, will have McLaren's Heikki Kovalainen alongside him on the front row in Sunday's race.
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McLaren's Lewis Hamilton [Images] was third quickest with Ferrari's Formula One world champion Kimi Raikkonen [Images] joining the 23-year-old Briton on the second row.
Raikkonen leads Hamilton by nine points in the championship after four races.
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The pole was Massa's 12th of his Formula One career.

Karthikeyan wins Feature race

Narain Karthikeyan [Images] scorched the Brands Hatch circuit to win the Feature race and close the A1GP season on a high note as Team India secured its first ever top-10 finish in Brands Hatch on Sunday.
Narain grabs India's first pole
It was Karthikeyan versus Robbie Kerr throughout and the Indian won the battle through a brilliant second pit stop.
The Indian, starting at pole at the grid, finished the 48-lap race in 1 hour 7 min 24 seconds to bring home a total of 21 points -- 15 from Feature and 6 from Sprint, where Karthikeyan finished fifth in the morning.
This powered India to its first A1GP top-10 finish as they edged past USA, Portugal and China to be perched on 10th place on the championship table.
The second pit-stop in lap 32 proved instrumental in Karthikeyan's win as he beat the host nations' Robbie Kerr at the break to go ahead and eventually grab the lead with 10 laps to go.
It was smooth sailing after that as he maintained the lead and secured India's second win of the season.
It also crushed Robbie Kerr's hopes of a double win after the Briton had won the Sprint race in the morning. Kerr finished second behind Karthikeyan with a marginal gap of 1.078.
Swiss Neel Jani finished third with a timing of 1:07:33.416. However he had already sealed the Championship for his nation when he finished fourth in Sprint race in the morning.
Earlier, Narain gathered six points for Team India by finishing fifth in the 15-lap Sprint race.
Starting fifth at the Grid, Karthikeyan did well to maintain his position and took 19 minutes 23: 610 seconds, a gap of 0.342 seconds from the winner Robbie Kerr of the host nation, to finish his race.
Kerr led from the start to finish to win comfortably and did not give any chance anyone in the top-five to get past him.
The only change in the top-five beginners at the grid was thanks to the brilliance of Ireland's Adam Carroll, who pipped Swiss Neel Jani to claim the third place. Carroll began at the fourth position and overtook Jani in the very first lap and eventually finished the race with a timing of 19:21:329.
Jani finished fourth but it was enough to seal the championship. It hardly matters how he fares now in the main Feature race to be held later in the day.
Karthikeyan pushed hard the Swiss driver in the seventh lap but Jani held his nerves and did not let the Indian overtake him.

Force india driver Adrian Sutil

Name: Adrian Sutil
Nationality: German
Team: Force India Podium Finish: 0
Date of Birth: January 11, 1983
Place of Birth: Starnberg, Germany
A talented pianist, Adrian Sutil started karting at 14 before moving up to Swiss Formula Ford 1800 in 2002. He won all ten rounds of the season from pole and added five wins in the Formula Masters Austria championship.
In January 2006, Sutil enter Formula One as one of the three test drivers for the new Minardi F1 Racing team, along with Markus Winkelhock and Giorgio Mondini.
Sutil appeared for the Minardi team as the third driver at the European, French and Japanese Grands Prix. By the time of his third appearance the outfit had been bought by Spyker Cars. At the end of the year he was promoted to second driver for the 2007 season, having been signed on a multi-year contract by the team.
At Fuji Speedway, Japan, Sutil narrowly missed an opportunity to score Spyker's first ever point, briefly holding 8th position on the penultimate lap of the high-attrition race after Nick Heidfeld retired his BMW, but was almost immediately passed by fellow back-marker Vitantonio Liuzzi in the Toro Rosso and finished 9th, still a career-best.
After the race it was found that Liuzzi had overtaken Sutil under yellow flags, and the 25-second penalty for the Italian promoted Sutil to the final points position. Toro Rosso appealed the decision, but the penalty was upheld.
He has been praised by many for his performances in the 2007 Formula One Championship. Despite driving the most uncompetitive car of the year, the German rookie has impressed by not only dominating all of his teammates in both qualifying and race conditions, but also by challenging other drivers with superior equipment.
Sutil is contracted to race with Force India (formerly Spyker) for 2008, after briefly entertaining the possibility of a McLaren drive.

Force Indian Driver Giancarlo Fisichella

Nationality: Italian
Team: Force India
Podium Finish: 18
Date of Birth: January 14, 1973
Place of Birth: Rome, Italy
Giancarlo Fisichella has driven in Formula One for Renault Sauber, Jordan, Benetton and Minardi before joining new Force India Team on 10 January 2008.
Like most current Formula One drivers, he began kart racing as a youngster. In 1992, he competed in the Italian Formula Three series, racing for the RC Motorsport team. He finished runner up in 1993, and in 1994 he won the championship, following race victories in Monaco and Macau. He left open-wheel racing briefly in 1995, driving for Alfa Romeo in the International Touring Car Championship series.
In 1996, he made the move to Formula One, making his debut for the Minardi team. However he did not complete the full season since Minardi required a driver who could bring funding to the team, and replaced Fisichella with Giovanni Lavaggi.
Fisichella has won three races in his career to date, the first of which was at the chaotic 2003 Brazilian Grand Prix, a race abandoned for safety reasons with 15 laps remaining. After much confusion regarding rules and technicalities (which lasted for several days)
Fisichella was eventually declared the winner in the following week, and collected his trophy in an unorthodox ceremony at the following race.
Fisichella had endured mixed fortunes at his last team, Renault. He was brought in to the team to replace fellow Italian Jarno Trulli, and won his first race with the team in Australia in 2005.
However, after that race it was his team-mate, the Spanish driver Fernando Alonso win the greater share of races for Renault. Although highly rated as a driver, Fisichella was unable to keep pace with eventual champion Alonso, managing just one further race win since his debut. Outside of driving, he runs his own GP2 team, FMS International.

Force India goes green, ties up for zero emission bikes

BARCELONA, April 25: In an effort to reduce its carbon footprint, the Force India Formula One team on Friday announced its partnership with Vectrix UK Ltd, the producers of the world's first high-performance, zero emission, electric motorcycle.
Accordingly, Vectrix will supply the team with two Force India-branded electric maxi-scooters to use at races, tests and at its Silverstone factory.
The pioneering bikes run exclusively on battery power, which is recharged by plugging the onboard charger into any standard electrical outlet.
Fully-charged, each bike has a range of up to 68 miles, making the Vectrix the 'greenest' way to get around.
"As a Formula One racing team we are well aware of our responsibility to off-set our carbon emissions from Grands Prix, testing and travelling around the globe and the Vectrix bikes are a practical and innovative way to continue our policies," Vijay Mallya, chairman and managing director of Force India, said. "They're a great product; versatile, fast and cheap to run, they will be a very welcome addition to the team on events," he added.

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