The Force India Formula One Team’s 2010 challenger, the VJM03, made its official testing debut today at the Circuit de Jerez in Spain. Tonio was on driving duties and, despite the mainly wet conditions, covered more than 300km in a largely trouble-free run. His fastest lap was 1:24.968, 4.041 seconds slower than fastest time today, [...]

Tonio was given an unexpected day in the cockpit of the VJM01 today at the team’s final test of 2008, after Giancarlo Fisichella was sidelined by a dental problem. With the team not due to run again until 2009 – when they have modified their chassis for the new Mercedes engine – the team focused [...]

Tonio continued the Force India’s test programme today at a scorching hot Jerez de la Frontera circuit. Despite temperatures approaching the high 30s, the Italian had a full day’s schedule to work through, including putting more miles on the team’s new seamless shift gearbox, aerodynamic work and brake testing. In the afternoon, he also tested [...]

Just three days after its double finish in the German Grand Prix, the Force India F1 Team was out in action again on the Jerez de la Frontera circuit in southern Spain, with Tonio behind the wheel. He ran the new seamless shift gearbox for the first time following a shakedown last week at Silverstone. [...]

Tonio today completed testing duties for the Force India F1 Team on the first day of its three-day test at the Circuit de Catalunya, Spain. During this day, Massa set a blistering fastest time of 1:18.339, which was already 2.7 seconds faster than Wurz, the second fastest man today. Tonio completed 91 laps and set [...]

Tonio once more recorded some competitive lap times in Barcelona. His fastest lap time, 1:22.942, was good enough for the 10th position today. Once again it was Lewis Hamilton who topped the time sheets with a lap time of 1:21.234. Together with team mate Fisichella, Tonio focussed on set-up work in the morning and race [...]

Force India’s new challenger, the VJM01 made it’s debut today at Circuit the Catalunya in Spain. Tonio was the first to drive the car around the 4.655 km long track, setting a fastest lap time of 1:23.270, less than a second slower than the fastest man of the day: Lewis Hamilton.Tonio focussed on understanding the [...]

For the fourth consecutive time this year, Tonio was able to minimize the gap towards the front runners during a test day. Almost a month ago the gap was 3,5 seconds, today it was less than 2,5 seconds, when the Italian set a fastest lap time of 1:21.553. During this sunny test day at the [...]

Tonio today continued Force India’s test programme on the second day of the three-day test at the Circuit de Catalunya, Spain. Compared to Fisichella’s performance yesterday, he had a more difficult session today as, after running reliably on Friday, the car suffered from some mechanical issues today. Tonio focussed on set-up work and engine installation [...]

For the second time this year Tonio kicked off a testing week for Force India. At Valencia’s Ricardo Tormo circuit in Spain, he focussed on putting in some longer runs in preparation for the start of the season on 16 March. Tonio drove 64 laps and set a fastest lap time of 1:15.095, 2.913 seconds [...]