Mallya said after the team’s disappointing German GP campaign.

Nuerburgring: Taking positives, and not points, has been the recurring theme in Force India’s F1 story so far but chairman Vijay Mallya still holds on to his optimism and believes the team can accomplish the elusive in the Hungarian Grand Prix later this month.
“It’s just a shame that after such a great weekend we don’t have any points to show for it. But that’s motorsport — these incidents happen,” Mallya said after the team’s disappointing German GP campaign.

“The next race is only a couple of weeks so we’ll refocus on this and try to finish the job in Hungary,” he added.

Force India made all the right moves going into the German GP with both Adrian Sutil and Giancarlo Fisichella posting top six times in Friday’s practice sessions.

Sutil sprang another surprise by gatecrashing Q3 and booking himself the seventh slot on the starting grid, his and the team’s best position ever.

The ending to Sutil’s fairytale home race, however, was anything but.

In a repeat of last year’s Monaco GP Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen crashed into Sutil’s VJM02, while the German was exiting the pits running a surprising second, claiming the front wing and necessitating an emergency pit stop that put paid to all point hopes.

Sutil was in tears after last year’s Monaco mishap but the young German seemed to have matured this time as he took the setback in his stride. “Overall I think we’ve learnt a lot. It’s the first time starting in the top 10 and it’s a different race up there. It’s been a good push for everyone in the team to get some more development,” Sutil said. (PTI)