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Force India to skip Jerez test

Force India has cancelled plans to run its 2014 car at the first pre-season test at Jerez.

The team had previously announced that it would not launch its 2015 car - the VJM08 - until before the second test in Barcelona in order to give it more development time. However, the original plan was to still run at the Circuito de Jerez with last year's VJM07.

With just four days until the start of the first test, Force India has now announced that it will not run the old car and will focus on preparing the new car for its debut later in February.

Force India launched its 2015 livery in Mexico City last week, but the car used for that event was VJM07 featuring a 2015-spec front nose.

Click here to see the full gallery of Force India's 2015 livery launch

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Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.