After climbing to fourth in the championship last year, the team’s hopes should be to keep moving forward, but the reality is that Force India isn’t going to be in a position to challenge the big three this time.

It’s in the thick of the battle for fourth place and if it can hold on to that, and perhaps even close the big points gap to the top three, then that will be a very good return for a team operating on limited resources. But judging from testing that won’t be easy, with so many teams in that midfield battle.

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