Driver profile: Adrian Sutil

Adrian Sutil gets a second chance at Formula 1 after his enforced hiatus in 2012 following an unsavoury incident in a Chinese nightclub that left a fellow reveller with cuts that required stitches caused by a champagne glass.

Adrian Sutil

  • Team: Force India
  • Team-mate: Paul Di Resta
  • Nationality: German
  • Born: 11/01/1983, Starnberg

Sutil always insisted his conviction of grievous bodily harm would not bar him from making a comeback to F1 and so it has proved.

Force India have taken the 'safe' option. They know what they are getting with Sutil after he drove for the team in its various guises from 2007 to 2011.

And that is a solid F1 driver, nothing spectacular, who will score points and has a strong ability in the wet. A rival for the very best, though, he is not.