FORCEINDIAF1 News

Mallya's Force India Formula 1 racing team will immediately acquire the edge it requires to develop its next generation cars. Moreover, the help, chiefly by way of condensed design cycle time, will be coming from a supercomputer based right here at Hinjewadi. On 30th dec, India's first F1 racing team contract signed an exclusive, 3-year contract with Tata Sons' Computational Research Laboratories (CRL) to develop a computational liquid dynamics (CFD) solution for designing F1 racing cars. 

Million dollar contract means that the design cycle time will reduce considerably and aerodynamic competence will improve, giving the team's drivers their best option of a excellent result. The computational liquid dynamics (CFD) designs for F1 cars are between the most complex and need exceptionally high compute powers for true results. Now, complex simulations will be performed on CRL's supercomputer Eka at Hinjewadi here, without compromise on processing times. CRL will provide Force India with a total high-performance computing (HPC) ecosystem, ranging from hardware support to modified configurations to application support. 

The Force India team has set it will keep Adrian Sutil and Tonio Liuzzi as its racing drivers for next season.It will be the fourth successive season that German driver Sutil for the Silverstone-based team, while Liuzzi safe a full-time drive for his first season.We are very satisfied to keep the services of both Adrian and Tonio for a new season, Team boss Vijay Mallya said.
We have at all times maintained that uniformity is key at this stage in the team's growth and for the first time in several years we will have the stability of not only the same drivers, but also the same engine and senior management.With this stability now in place I truly believe we have an excellent platform to build on and move forward on our strong 2009 performance. I am sure we have one of the most dynamic line-ups on the grid and I hope this will stand us in good stead in what we all hope will be a transitional year for the team."
Adrian Sutil said: "2010 will be my fourth successive year with the team. I sense good here, it feels like family, and when you feel at ease you can focus your energy 100% on getting it right on track. Next season I want to be in the points on a regular basis, maybe even challenging for the podium, and the team has exactly the same goals.
"We are going massively in the right direction so with our combined energies I'm confident we can achieve even more than last season.Liuzzi, who was the test hold back driver for the past two seasons, was pleased to be able to safe in a full-time seat. The Italian raced for Force India in the last five races of the 2009 season, replacing Giancarlo Fisichella."It was always my aim to be back racing in 2010 and I've lastly achieved it," he said. I feel the five races I did in 2009 were a bit of a warm-up; get rear racing, study the car, get the reaction back.

Neel Jani will test a Force India at the young driver test at Jerez early next month.

Switzerland's Motorsport Aktuell said that Karun Chandhok could test alongside Jani, although the Indian driver's appearance is yet to be confirmed.

It emerged earlier this week that DTM driver Paul di Resta, under contract to Mercedes-Benz's motorsport programme, will also test with Force India at Jerez.

Jani is a former test driver with Sauber and Toro Rosso, and has raced in GP2, A1GP, Champ Car and Le Mans.


Source: GMM
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