Know the F1 stars: Adrian Sutil

He appeared for the team as the third driver at the European, French and Japanese Grands Prix. By the time of his third appearance the outfit had been bought by Spyker Cars.

Sutil made his debut for Force India at the 2008 Canadian Grand Prix. In October, the same year Force India announced they would keep Sutil for the 2009 season.
Sutil and the Force India team started the year with a real optimism of point-scoring finishes when the European part of the season started after the first four races.

In the 2009 Chinese Grand Prix, Sutil was racing in 6th place with 6 laps remaining when he lost control of his Force India — due to aquaplaning — resulting in him crashing and forcing him to retire.

At the 2009 German Grand Prix Sutil took advantage of the unpredictable conditions in the qualifying sessions, and secured his best qualifying position of seventh. In the race, he finished 15th as a collision with Kimi Räikkönen cost Sutil the chance to score points.

At the 2009 Italian Grand Prix, Sutil took his career-best qualifying result of second place and finished fourth in the race. He also recorded the fastest lap of the race, his first in Formula One and the first fastest lap recorded for Force India.
At the 2009 Japanese Grand Prix, Sutil took his second-best career qualifying result of fourth, but was given a 5 grid-place penalty along with Jenson Button, Rubens Barrichello, Fernando Alonso and Sebastien Buemi for not slowing down while yellow flags were waved and started the race from eighth on the grid.

FACT FILE
Birth Starnburg 11/01/1983
Nationality German
Team Force India
Podiums 0
Points 6
Grand Prix entered 50
World Championships 0
Highest race finish 4 (x1)
Highest grid position 2 (x1)
First race 2007 Australian Grand Prix
2008 position 20th (0 pts)
 

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