Force India’s performance in 2012 Formula 1 season so far at a glance
Force India has proven themselves as one of the strongest midfield contender and has performed reasonably well in the 2012 Formula 1 season so far.
Currently, they are standing 8th position in the constructors’ championship with 46 points. Additionally, they have a strong lead over Toro Rosso and are 7 points behind their main rival, Williams.
Meanwhile, their driver, Paul di Resta is at 13th place in the drivers’ rankings with 27 points. Moreover, he is ahead of Felipe Massa of Ferrari and is behind the seven-time world champion, Michael Schumacher of Mercedes.
In the season opener, he secured 10th place finish after taking a start from 15th grid position. Later, in the second race, he performed quite convincingly and secured seventh position after setting off from 14th grid slot.
Afterwards, he struggled during the Chinese GP and could not score even a single point as he came 12th in the charts after starting from 15th place in the grid.
Later on, in the fourth race which was held at Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir, he secured an incredible sixth place finish after beginning from 10th grid position. Additionally, it will be important to mention that it has been his best
performance in the current season so far.
In the Spanish GP, he again faced difficulties with finding his true pace and could not score any points as he came 14th in the timesheets. Nevertheless, he made an impressive comeback in the Monaco GP and secured 7th position after
qualifying for 14th position in the grid.
Although, he delivered his best qualifying performance of this year in the Canadian GP as he secured 8th grid position, however, he remained unable to score any point as he came 11th in the race. Then, in the European GP, he strike
back well and secured 7th position after starting from 10th grid slot.
Conversely, he was retired in the British GP and could not score any points in the German and Hungarian grands prix.
On the other hand, his teammate, Nico Hulkenberg is presently at 16th position in the drivers’ championship with 19 points. Besides, he is ahead of Toro Rosso pair of drivers, Jean-Eric Vergne and Daniel Ricciardo and is behind Bruno Senna of
Williams.
In addition, he struggled during the start of the season and could only score 3 points in the first five grands prix. Nonetheless, he secured 8th place finish in the sixth race and secured 5th place finish in the eighth race which is
his best performance in the season until now. Over and above, he scored one point in the race at Hockenheimring and couldn’t pocket any points in the last race at Hungaroring Circuit.
The Silverstone based team has faced some problems during the last couple of races. Even so, the team principal of Force India, Vijay Mallya has said that they will make a stronger return with some essential advancement after the mid-season break.
“We've shown flashes of speed this weekend, but ultimately we haven't been consistent enough to achieve our goal of finishing in points. We didn't qualify well enough and that hurt us this afternoon because there was little chance to progress on track where
overtaking is so difficult. There was no room to improvise with strategy and our two-stop approach was definitely right call considering cars that we were racing against. We will take positives from last few days and try to understand where we can find more
performance so that we can come back stronger after the summer break,” he said.
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