🇩🇪 Adrian Sutil

Adrian Sutil is a retired German racing driver who competed as an established professional in Formula 1 from 2007 to 2014, spending the bulk of his single-seater career with Force India. He drove solo, one car per round, across a field that mixed amateurs with professionals and former champions. His most recent competition came in Ferrari Challenge in 2022 and 2023, racing Ferrari 488 and 296 Challenge cars in its P class.[1]

Sutil made 128 Formula 1 starts without taking a podium finish. In the 2014 season, his final year in the championship, he finished 15th in the standings across 19 rounds. His career also included 29 Formula 3 Euro Series starts for ASM Formule 3 in 2004 and 2005, where he won twice and took 11 podiums in a single-class field spanning amateur through professional graded drivers. He started in Formula 3 Macau in 2006 with one podium from two races. Later, after retiring from single-seaters, he took a win and three further podiums across eight Ferrari Challenge starts in the P class between 2022 and 2023.[2]

Throughout his Formula 1 career Sutil regularly raced against Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg, both multiple champions; he finished ahead of Hamilton on seven occasions and ahead of Rosberg on eleven. In Formula 3 Euro Series he competed in a field that included Hamilton, then a future seven-time Formula 1 champion, and Rosberg. His full career spans 12 seasons of racing from 2004 to his retirement.