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.