Can F1's 'best' small team win again?

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Alex Kalinauckas

May 1, 2020, 3:10 PM

Two years ago, the Force India financial saga was in its final chapter. The team has since been re-born as Racing Point, which will be re-branded as Aston Martin in 2021. Here's the full story of its controversial but fast new car, and its big future aims

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"It was evident from day one," recalls Sergio Perez. "I came from McLaren and I remember the first time visiting the factory at Force India. It was a shock straight away because I could see the deficit they had on money.

A transition from mighty McLaren at the end of 2013, when it was then only at the beginning of its slide from the front of the grid, to the squad then known as Force India is a dramatic lesson in the disparity of Formula 1 team budgets. But not so when it comes to results.

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Alex Kalinauckas is Autosport's Grand Prix Editor, covering every Formula 1 race since the start of 2020. After completing a master's degree in journalism at Goldsmiths College University of London in 2014, he worked for a range of motorsport and technology publications while covering national racing as an Autosport freelancer.

A lifelong motorsport fan - no one in his family can explain quite how or why such a development first occurred - Alex joined the Autosport staff in April 2017 as the magazine’s Assistant Editor covering Formula 2 and GP3, before being made Formula E correspondent and Autosport.com’s Plus Editor in March 2018. He lives in north-east London and is constantly frustrated by the Central Line.