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Karthikeyan rules out Force India drive
December 24th, 2008 | A1Team.IND. No comments yet   PDF Version  
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Narain Karthikeyan, India’s first Formula One driver, said he was never interested in joining Force India and criticised team co-owner Vijay Mallya for saying no Indian was good enough to drive in F1.

“I spent a frustrating time with Jordan, where I had a car that just could not perform. I have no desire to be with another pedestrian team that’s low on performance and loud on talk,” Karthikeyan told the Hindustan Times newspaper on Wednesday.

Indian billionaire Mallya bought into the Spyker team last year and renamed it Force India. He told the newspaper recently that neither Karthikeyan nor the country’s next hope Karun Chandhok were good enough for his team.

Force India failed to score a point in its first season and confirmed this month that Italian Giancarlo Fisichella and German Adrian Sutil will race for them again in 2009.

“I never even approached Mallya. The vibes from the camp have been extremely negative and I want to make it clear that I am not interested in driving for Force India,” Karthikeyan said.

Karthikeyan, who in 2005 became his country’s first F1 driver, has been driving in the A1 Grand Prix series with some success and is hoping to find a way back into F1.

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