Fisi accidentally sends India into orbit

The effects of Force India’s amazing Belgian Grand Prix weekend have been felt in deep space, with the teams pole position on Saturday being directly linked to the loss of the Indian Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft.

The £45 million, unmanned craft was launched… last October on a two year mission of exploration orbiting the Moon, but all contact was suddenly lost after qualifying on Saturday.

A spokesman at the Bangalore-based Space Research Organisation said the fault had been traced to a technician who had been watching events unfold in Belgium on the television, before banging his hands down on the control panel just as Giancarlo Fisichella secured pole, sending the Moon probe off on a one way trip in the direction of Jupiter.

The organisation though are not too unhappy, as like the rest of India they are busy celebrating India’s first pole and podium with a British based team, staffed mainly by Europeans with a car built in Northampton driven by an Italian with a German engine.

Well done India…

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