Green to replace Smith at Force India

According to reports in Autosport, the Force India Formula One team will promote from within when it comes to replacing their Technical Director, Mark Smith, who announced his departure to Lotus Racing earlier this season, and as such Andy Green, the team’s engineering director, will take over the role.

"When Mark leaves, which will probably be towards the end of this year/early next year, we have Andrew Green, who is going to take his place," Otmar Szafnauer, the team’s CEO, told the British publication. "We've made some internal restructuring as well to take up the gap that James Key left, and all that will happen at the start of next year."

“We've got a good plan to overcome the fact that we had two of the key people leave. Although he is not a big name, he has been around a long time, knows the team well and is a good competent designer/engineer – so the ideal man to lead the team in the right direction."