Force India chiefs has abandoned plans to rename the team ‘Force One’ for 2018.
Earlier, the Silverstone based team said it wanted to drop the ‘India’ from its name in order to attract a more international profile.
But Force One has been ruled out, ostensibly by F1 commercial rights holder Liberty Media.
“The new name must be able to last and it cannot be Force One,” sporting boss Otmar Szafnauer is quoted by France’s Auto Hebdo.
“The F1 guys think it could be too easily shortened to F1,” he added.