About Adrian Sutil
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 one 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 third 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. Sutil holds the record for the most career starts without a podium finish (128). Hamilton won more races than Sutil, but the German was runner-up to Hamilton and the Briton's only serious competitor in the championship and at the Marlboro Masters of Formula Three at Zandvoort. Sutil spent 2006 racing in Japan and won the All-Japan Formula Three Championship. He won all 12 rounds of the season from pole and added five wins in the Formula Masters Austria championship.
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