Force India to be renamed Racing Point for 2019

The Force India team will officially be known as Racing Point for the 2019 Formula One season.

The change was confirmed with the release of the official 2019 championship entry list, which was finalised by Force India completing the 20-driver grid by announcing Lance Stroll for the season. Stroll is the son of Canadian billionaire Lawrence, who led a consortium to purchase the team after it fell into administration in August.

From that point on it was effectively rebooted as 'Racing Point Force India' in the championship, a different entity to the 'Sahara Force India' team it had been previously, starting again on zero points in the constructors' championship. The team will officially take on…