Force India
Force India are planning to introduce the Kinetic Energy Recovery System [KERS] to their cars at the German Grand Prix in mid-July.
Force India will continue to fit upgrades to their VJM02 cars at the Spanish Grand Prix this weekend, before KERS will become the final development at the Nürburgring.
“Right now, the focus is on getting the Barcelona upgrade on the car and ready to race,” Mallya told. “Then we have another upgrade in Monaco and then in Germany we will introduce KERS, because the car is KERS enabled and we have a contract with Mercedes [for the device].”
Mallya also rubbished speculation that he is planning to shortly replace either Adrian Sutil or Giancarlo Fisichella with Bruno Senna in a race seat.
However, Mallya admitted: “Obviously I’ll have a look at this for next year, sooner or later.” Setanta Sports
“We’ll have yet more upgrades coming through based on the information we gained in Bahrain,” confirmed team principal Vijay Mallya. “We’ll be running a driver-adjustable front wing flap and a further modification for the front wing. This is just part of our ongoing development cycle and there will be further upgrades at most of the forthcoming races.”
The Spanish Grand Prix had also been pencilled in as the race where Force India would add KERS to their armoury. However, after witnessing the mixed fortunes experienced by those teams running the system, Mallya says Force India will concentrate their efforts elsewhere for now.
“We have decided to put the emphasis on aero development where we feel the greater gains can be found,” he said. “As we’ve seen many other teams are not running KERS so we do not feel we are at a disadvantage. We still plan to use it later in the season, but this will be reviewed after each race in line with the other work we have going on in the background.”
“We are already racing but we can always improve. We’ve achieved more than I thought so in this respect I can’t stand by the earlier comments - I want more now!” Formula 1
