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Fisichella feeling confident

Giancarlo Fisichella managed to avoid retirement in the winter months and secured a drive with the new Force India team. Ahead of the new season, the Italian says he is feeling confident that his new team can cause a few surprises. 

"Australia is a good place for me to start the season and my Force India race career. I won the race in 2005 and started in second place in 2006 and with a car that was not as competitive as we would have liked, I finished in fifth last season," Fisichella said.

"I feel confident for this first race with Force India," he added. "My first target is to get into Q2, but then the final hope is to score Force India's first point in the championship. You can see that every test we have moved forward and made some good progress - at the last test in Barcelona in particular where our lap times confirmed we are going in the right direction with the car."

"We have maybe another two to three tenths to come from new developments we have in the pipeline, which could mean a step forward and another few places on the grid," Fisichella warned. "Looking at the other teams, under race conditions I do not think they will get away from us that easily."

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