Adrian Sutil

Adrian Sutil
Born (1983-01-11) 11 January 1983 (age 41)
Starnberg, Bavaria, West Germany
Formula One World Championship career
NationalityGermany German
Active years20072011, 20132014
TeamsSpyker, Force India, Sauber
Car number99
Entries128 (128 starts)
Championships0
Wins0
Podiums0
Career points124
Pole positions0
Fastest laps1
First entry2007 Australian Grand Prix
Last entry2014 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
Previous series
20222023
2006
2005–2006
20042005
2003
2002
Ferrari Challenge Europe
Japanese F3
A1 Grand Prix
F3 Euro Series
Formula BMW ADAC
Swiss Formula Ford
Championship titles
2006
2002
Japanese F3
Swiss Formula Ford

Adrian Sutil (German pronunciation: [ˈaːdʁiaːn zʊˈtiːl]; born 11 January 1983) is a German racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 2007 to 2014.

Born and raised in Starnberg, Sutil started karting aged 14 and moved into single seater racing in 2002 in the Swiss Formula Ford series where he won the title. He moved up into Formula Masters Austria and started 1 race before stepping into Formula BMW ADAC in 2003. Sutil then raced in the Formula 3 Euroseries where he was the runner-up to Lewis Hamilton in 2005. He went to Japan in 2006 to race in the All-Japan Formula Three Championship and also finished 3rd in the Macau Grand Prix.

Having been involved in the Midland F1 test team, Sutil was promoted to a race seat for the new Spyker F1 team in 2007. Sutil continued to race with the team under their new guise Force India in 2008 where he remained until 2011. Having made his return to the sport in 2013 again with Force India, he competed in the 2014 season with the Sauber team.[1]

  1. ^ "Adrian Sutil moves to Sauber for 2014 Formula 1 season". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. 13 December 2013. Retrieved 13 December 2013.