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Name: Force India

Four changes of ownership in four years is the story of the Force India - formerly Spyker, Midland and Jordan - Formula One team in recent years.

Having successfully run teams in F3 and F3000, Eddie Jordan entered F1 in 1991, his operation largely regarded as a stepping-stone for drivers such as Michael and Ralf Schumacher, Eddie Irvine, Johnny Herbert and Rubens Barrichello, who all drove for the outfit early in their careers.

Nevertheless, there was a time when Jordan did actually look like breaking through and challenging F1's hegemony, starting in 1998 when former world champion Damon Hill claimed their first victory, leading home team-mate Ralf Schumacher in a 1-2 finish in the Belgian Grand Prix.

The following season was to prove the team's most successful, with Schumacher's replacement, Heinz-Harald Frentzen, winning the French and Italian grands prix on his way to third place in the drivers' championship.

Powered by Mugen-Honda, the team also finished third in the constructors' championship. However, fortunes soon started to wane and, despite a switch to works Honda power in 2001, Jordan's sacking of Frentzen further signalled the team's sudden malaise.

A loss of sponsorship funding hardly helped and, with the team struggling to ninth in the constructors' championship by 2004, the rich promise seen five years earlier must suddenly have seemed light years away.

In the grip of severe financial problems, Jordan sold his team to Russian-born Canadian billionaire businessman, Alex Shnaider, who opted to retain the Jordan name and its canary-yellow livery for 2005.

But - for the third consecutive season - the team finished second to last in the championship, bagging just 12 points. And 11 of those were scored at the six-car United States GP, where they only had to beat Minardi to claim third and fourth places.

Shnaider made changes ahead of the 2006 season, with the team being re-named Midland after his own business empire, and their cars' livery changing to red, black and silver.

However, the results stayed the same, with drivers Christijan Albers and Tiago Monteiro struggling during both qualifying and the races.

It took the team until the eighth grand prix of the season to break into the second segment of the new-look qualifying sessions.

And, as for the grands prix themselves, the Toyota-powered M16 proved pretty reliable, but lacked the pace of the more established midfielders.

The team wasn't exactly helped by a few coming togethers involving their own drivers - the most notable being a start-line incident in Monaco.

However, the team persevered and started to close the gap, with Monteiro and Albers finishing ninth and tenth in Hungary, ahead of Scott Speed's Toro Rosso and the Toyota of Jarno Trulli.

But that result proved to be the high point of the season.

The low came at the German Grand Prix, when both M16's were disqualified after the FIA deemed the cars' rear wings illegally flexible.

Rumours were also circulating that Shnaider was looking to sell his team and in September 2006 it was confirmed that the team had been taken over by Dutch sportscar manufacturer Spyker.

Spyker quickly went to work setting up a better package for 2007 that included Ferrari engines along with various sponsors bringing in the much-needed funds.

Albers, whose sponsorship also helped wet the coffers, was retained, with promising youngster Adrian Sutil making his debut for the team.

But the team continued to languish at the back of the Formula One grid. Fourteen retirements, eight of which were crashes didn't help the team's chances, but Sutil did underline his talent by emerging quickest in final practice - held in wet conditions - for the Monaco Grand Prix.

The loss of Albers' financial package resulted in the Dutchman being replaced by German driver Markus Winkelhock for one race, the European GP.

An inspired decision to start Winkelhock from the pitlane on wet tyres as the rain started to fall at the Nurburgring allowed him to briefly hold a 30-second lead in the drenched grand prix.

However, the weather cleared and, following a restart, the frontrunners were soon back in control.

Spyker's only other highlight came at the Japanese Grand Prix when Sutil took eighth place, earning the team their one and only point of the season.

And, with Spyker now running into financial difficulties, the team was once again up for sale.

However, their future now appears secure after Indian billionaire Vijay Mallya and Dutch entrepreneur Michiel Mol assumed control, renaming the team Force India.

In 2008, with Sutil and experienced driver Giancarlo Fisichella behind the wheel, Force India, racing under the Indian colours, will be hoping that Mallya's money will give the team the boost it needs to move up the grid.