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Vijay Mallya: 'We need to regroup and come back stronger'
Posted: Tuesday July 12th 2011, 08:18 GMT
Force India didn't have a great race in Silverstone. The team started from P6 and P11 but failed to leave with points. Sutil Finished 11th and Di Resta was 15th when the flag dropped. Team principal Vijay Mallya says that it just wasn't their day: "It simply was not our day. Despite the promise we showed Saturday, the events of the race compromised our strategies and made it very difficult to score points. To begin with things looked very good. Both Paul and Adrian were running strongly in the points and the car continued to perform well."
He explains that their race fell apart when both cars came in for new tyres: "Unfortunately things started to go wrong when we made a serious error on the pit wall. We called Paul in for his second scheduled stop, but at the same time Adrian came on the radio reporting a puncture. We tried to get Paul to stay out so that we could service Adrian's car, but it was too late and Paul was already in the pit lane. That led to some confusion over the tyres being ready for Paul when he arrived at the garage and cost him a great deal of time. As for Adrian, he drove well, but lost out to the two-stoppers in the closing laps. It's clear we need to regroup and come back stronger in Germany so that we can convert the pace of the car into points."
