Force India continues to impress in 2017, with the team having been in the points with both cars in all five GPs – and COO Otmar Szafnauer is keen to continue that run at Monaco.
The team had been waiting for the Barcelona update package to provide some extra pace after over-delivering in the early races with a car that was clearly slower than its main competition.
Although three retirements ahead clearly flattered the team in Spain and helped Sergio Perez and Esteban Ocon to fourth and fifth, they would still have earned comfortable seventh and eighth places way ahead of their main midfield rivals, indicating that the changes had been for the better.