Force India non-committal on upgrades

Force India team principal Vijay Mallya says the team will be evaluating new parts in Barcelona but is unsure if it will run them in the race.

Having started the season with a conservative approach based on reliability rather than ambitious design, Force India had been earmarking the Spanish Grand Prix as the race that it would bring a major upgrade. Mallya said that some updates were in the pipeline, but that it had been set back slightly by the reduced dry running in practice in Turkey.

"We have some upgrades to bring to the car in the coming races and I'm excited to see how things will unfold," Mallya said. "We started evaluating those changes at the last race in Turkey by running a new front wing during free practice. It was a shame that it was wet because it limited our test programme and we chose not to run those new parts for the race.

We are now analysing what we learned and hopefully we can add this new package to the car either in Barcelona or Monaco, depending on how things go. When our new aerodynamic developments are in place, I'm confident we can take a step forward in terms of performance."

Paul di Resta said that he was looking forward to the upgrade when it gets introduced, but warned that other teams would be doing the same.

"It's usually a race where all the teams bring upgrades so we will need to take a step forward if we want to stay in the mix," di Resta said. "We evaluated a new front wing in Istanbul and we hope to have more steps coming through in the near future. The team has been working hard on this new concept and everybody is quite upbeat about its race introduction, so that's something to look forward to.

The aim for the weekend is to hopefully get back in the points. We've been pretty close to the top ten in all the races so far this season, so hopefully we can stay in the hunt."