{"id":159579,"date":"2014-04-07T22:49:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T22:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2014\/04\/07\/force-india-scale-the-f1-heights-at-bahrain-grand-prix\/"},"modified":"2014-04-07T22:49:23","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T22:49:23","slug":"force-india-scale-the-f1-heights-at-bahrain-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2014\/04\/07\/force-india-scale-the-f1-heights-at-bahrain-grand-prix\/","title":{"rendered":"Force India scale the F1 heights at Bahrain Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Force India reached the giddy heights of second place in the Formula One constructors\u2019 championship on Sunday after Mexican Sergio Perez secured only the second podium finish in the team\u2019s history.<\/div>\n
The McLaren discard\u2019s third place in the floodlit Bahrain Grand Prix brought the added satisfaction of knocking his former employers into third place overall.<\/div>\n
The only other time the Silverstone-based team have finished in the top three was Italian Giancarlo Fisichella\u2019s second place in Belgium in 2009 after starting from an unexpected pole position.<\/div>\n
\u201cToday is one of the greatest days in the history of our team,\u201d said co-owner Vijay Mallya. \u201cIt\u2019s been a long time coming, but it\u2019s very satisfying to see Sahara Force India back on the podium after so many near misses in recent years.\u201d<\/div>\n
With Germany\u2019s Nico Hulkenberg finishing fifth, and scoring points for the third race in a row, Force India now have 44 points to McLaren\u2019s 43.<\/div>\n
Perez is no stranger to the podium, although he did not manage it all last season with McLaren, having enjoyed top-three placings with Sauber in 2012 but this was the hardest-won of any of them.<\/div>\n
\u201cIt means a lot,\u201d said the elated Mexican.<\/div>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a very special podium for myself. I had a really tough time, my time in McLaren where I was basically quite far…I never had a chance to fight for a podium in all my year (there).<\/div>\n
\u201cReally, coming into Force India and being able to, only in my third race, to be able to qualify fourth and then straight away being able to fight for the podium was a great feeling. An amazing podium.\u201d <\/div>\n
Perez had his team mate to thank for it as well, with Hulkenberg holding Australian Daniel Ricciardo\u2019s Red Bull at bay for long enough to allow the Mexican to get too far out of reach after the safety car period.<\/div>\n
\u201cWe fought so hard and it\u2019s been so close so many times that finally coming through is just wonderful,\u201d said deputy principal Bob Fernley. \u201cIt looked a little bit in jeopardy after that safety car came out.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Force India reached the giddy heights of second place in the Formula One constructors\u2019 championship on Sunday after Mexican Sergio Perez secured only the second podium finish in the team\u2019s history. The McLaren discard\u2019s third place in the floodlit Bahrain Grand Prix brought the added satisfaction of knocking his former employers into third place overall. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}