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Now, this is in the Mid-Field positions feels the team’s Italian driver — Giancarlo Fisichella. He was candid and honest about what he thinks in an interview he gave to PTI after a glitzy ceremony to mark the team’s driver line-up on Thursday night.

“This is going to be a difficult start to the season. The first few races are not going to be easy for us. The key is not to bother and keep improving. Our real chance lies in the second half of the calendar and if we get the right direction, I think we can push to make Force India a middle -rung team,” he said.

And to be honest, if they can do that consistently, they should be a reasonably competitive team in the 2009 championship season as well. In a sport where technical & electronic superiority are a must for good performance, money plays an important role in how good you do and Mallya has already pumped in some real money and says that money will not be a problem. Another thing going for them is the fact that the king of good times — Vijay Mallya is also the king of Kingfisher Airlines and hence his personal equation with Airbus will help in also to improve the aerodynamics and other technologies in the new range of cars that his team drivers will race. Many are applauding Mallya’s hands on role in team matters a lot and being serious about decisions such as the choice of drivers. (Giancarlo Fisichella, Adrian Sutil are the drivers & Antonio Liuzzi is the test driver. Now, Giancarlo made it instead of Ralf Schumi who a has personal relationship with Mallya)

 Mallya has already announced that he intends the team to make financial profits as well and the above driver choice in my view is a sound business decision. As in any other businesses, the more you put in, the more you get in return. In F1, it’s even more critical, teams like the Ferrari’s & Mclaren’s put in 100’s of millions of $’s each year, while at the lower end, the budget for teams like Minardi are close to 50 million mark.

Thanks to Mallya, the Force Indian team has a budget of 120 million $’s which is twice of what was the team’s budget as Spyker F1 previous year. The bottom line is that If Force India can out perform teams like Red Bull, Williams etc even in the second half of the year, Force India has a bright future in the coming year and that ultimately is good for the sport of racing in India, for now, the finesse and elegance racing style of Formula1 but who knows? It may pave the way for other forms of motor-sport here as well which is something that is long over-due. The season does not start until March 16 and it will be very very interesting to see how Force India shapes up!! Though at the end of the day, it’s all about watching the likes Kimi’s & Alonso’s race each other. I am hoping Kimi does it this year as well, what do you think?

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