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Force India have shaken things up going into next year, officially announcing theyve parted companies not only with Ferrari, but Colin Kolles and Mike Gascoyne.

Dropping Ferrari was to be expected with the team courting a deal with McLaren for a wider technical partnership, but the staff shakeup was more of a surprise but perhaps related as well. Kolles has been with the team since the Midland days and had been a strong opponent of Super Aguri and Toro Rosso racing customer cars through their Spyker days (he famously held confidential drawings of the Red Bull trying to prove they were breaking the rules). Perhaps with the likely result of Force India sharing many McLaren parts or indeed a McLaren chassis, he felt time to leave. Gascoyne had hopes of dragging the team towards the front of the grid over time as well, perhaps with a smaller demand from the team technically with the McLaren deal, he wasnt needed any further in his current role.