Force India COO Otmar Szafnauer has revealed all development of the current VJM11 is currently on hold as the team awaits the outcome of the administration process.
The Silverstone-based outfit went into the administration during the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend after a claim was brought forward by driver Sergio Perez and backed by Mercedes and sponsor BWT over unpaid bills.
Perez insisted that was done to save the team which was facing a winding-up order as legal troubles for owner Vijay Mallya continue, but it is now taking its toll on the track.
“The designs are done. It is just a matter of paying suppliers to start building the tools and making the car parts,” Szafnauer said told Motorsport.com.
“It doesn’t happen overnight, but we will be able to implement those plans. We should be able to have some good updates, hopefully a significant one, but only time will tell.”
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After finishing ‘best of the rest’ in the Constructors’ Championship the past two years, now Force India are sixth, 23 points behind Renault who now hold that position in fourth with both drivers finishing outside the points in Hungary.
“Finishing 13th and 14th isn’t great,” Szafnauer admitted.
“We weren’t that far off, maybe two to three tenths off some of the midfield runners. But we just didn’t have the pace.”
