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Low-Key Thursday Practise For Force India
By Alianora La Canta
May 22 2009
The Monaco Grand Prix often results in some strange changes to the pecking order. Last year Adrian Sutil was nine minutes and 45 seconds away from fourth position when an out-of-control Kimi Raikkonen removed him from the race. Nothing so dramatic happened to Force India in practise this year, though it seems the team remain Ferrari magnets...

In first practise, Force India quietly settled in, concentrating on the harder of the tyre compounds. Giancarlo finished the session 15th and Adrian finished 18th, but the only really interesting thing that happened all session was that Sebastian Vettel's engine exploded in a shower of smoke and oil in the tunnel.

 

Come the afternoon and Force India experimented with both soft and hard tyres. Unfortunately there did not seem to be much speed difference and graining was reported on both compounds. Adrian finished the session 13th while Giancarlo was 19th and last after Felipe Massa ruined his fast lap on soft tyres. The Ferrari driver, having been overtaken at the Swimming Pool, proceeded to attempt to re-take the position even though overtaking in the final sector of Monaco is nearly impossible. Some frenetic blocking and fist-waving ensued. Giancarlo avoided colliding into Felipe and even stayed ahead of him but the lap time was lost.

 

It does not look especially promising for qualifying on Saturday. The one bright spot is that with inadvertant blocking in Q1 inevitable, the Force India drivers could profit from penalties issued to other people.

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22 May, 2009 10:50 Report
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22 May, 2009 11:24 Report
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why don't Force India quit ? this year promises to be as bad as the last 4. I'm not impressed. AT ALL.

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22 May, 2009 12:35 Report
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I guess u ppl shld have little patience , u ppl are talking as if Force india are a 5-7 years old team and who is not performing at all.Guys even Ferrari took 5 years to get their 1st championship.
So as compared to last years force india r really competitive.And for that matter they arent using anyones money from their fans so dnt b so frustrated as if u are title sponsors of force india n speding a lot of money on team from ur pocket.Just chill n m sure they will be in points soon.
Go Force India Go !!!

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22 May, 2009 13:29 Report
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purashar ??!!what? enough patience, I'm only expecting Force India to get off the back of the grid not win the championship like Ferrari did...

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22 May, 2009 13:32 Report
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because there is hope...

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22 May, 2009 15:26 Report
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there's hope when there is money and good technical people.. see how it unfolds.. a point would do the trick.

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22 May, 2009 16:23 Report
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gordons, Force India might be going through a tough time, but to quit would be to defeat the point of competing. We will simply have to see what they make of the competitive environment that's coming.

A point would definitely help. It's not looking promising for this weekend, but then again Monaco has a habit of chucking up major surprises when least expected (ask Adrian Sutil).

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Lets Hope Force India does something good this year :-)

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