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F1: New Force India Shown At Silverstone
The VJM05 is the second car from Sahara Force India to be created under technical director Andrew Green...
Adam Cooper  | http://www.speedtv.com  |  Posted February 03, 2012   Silverstone (GBR)
The new Force India car has a pronounced stepped nose, to deal with the new nose height regulation. (Photo: Adam Cooper)
Force India revealed its new VJM05 at a freezing cold Silverstone on Friday.

Like the Caterham and Ferrari – and unlike the McLaren launched on Wednesday – the car has a pronounced stepped nose, to deal with the new nose height regulation.

The VJM05 is the second car from Sahara Force India to be created under technical director Andrew Green, who rejoined the team in 2010 after having been there in the Jordan years.

The team uses a system of alternating system of Project Leaders, and the VJM05 was the responsibility of Akio Haga and Ian Hall who oversaw last year’s car.

The team is using a Mercedes engine and a gearbox supplied by McLaren Applied Technologies for a fourth successive season.

“I would say that the car looks a lot more refined than previous cars produced here," said Green. "It does a look a lot racier and a lot more purposeful. You can start to see the aerodynamic concepts coming through now. It looks quite a bit different to the previous years, which is good.

The nose height regulation has led to the biggest visual change in the new Force India. (Photo: Adam Cooper)
"And so far the performance in the tunnel has been extremely encouraging, so we’re reasonably happy with where it sits. It’s just that unknown of where everyone else is – and we won’t know that until Melbourne.

“The nose height regulation has led to the biggest visual change in the car, and then there’s the exhaust regulation. The rest of it is very subtle.”

Green said that there were lots of updates on the way: "We’re scheduling all the new parts that are going to come in for the last test or the first race, so they are the ones that we can focus on. The net result is that we will be adding performance on the car come Melbourne because of the shape we’re in now. We will have that capacity in February to really push through some big updates in a much shorter period of time, because everything else will have been sorted. That’s really what we’re gearing ourselves up for – the first race – and it will be a little bit different from the car that we are going to run at the first test.”

Adam Cooper notched up his 27th season as a racing journalist in 2011. He has written about F1 for SPEED.com since 2005. Follow him on Twitter.
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