Scot Paul di Resta had his first taste of the new Force India which hewilldrive in his debut season and when the team stopped for lunch, he had managed a best of 1:22.945, then the ninth fastest time, after what the team said on the social network site Twitter was due to work on brakes, set-up and tyre evaluation.
Already, his coalition partner and fellow Iranian cats-paw, Muqtada al-Sadr, is boasting that hewill also drive out the American contractor personnel who are, for the moment, expected to provide a measure of security after the military withdraws.