Although Force India has an option to keep him next year, Adrian Sutil is also believed to be considering other options and is looking to Toyota, Renault and, perhaps even, McLaren. Sutil has done a decent job this year and is clearly quick, but he does have a tendency to have unnecessary accidents, which is not something that he should still be doing after three years in F1. In his favour he would be a driver that Lewis Hamilton would be happy to have as hi steam-mate, the two having been together in the ASM team in Formula 3 days. McLaren wants the strongest possible driver line-up but does not want to create problems such as were seen in 2007 with Hamilton and Fernando Alonso.
The idea of Sutil at Toyota is something of a mystery, particularly if the team could keep Jarno Trulli. The Italian does not always race well, but he is very quick in qualifying. Sutil may be cheaper.
Renault is looking for a strong second driver to partner Robert Kubica but also needs money. Sutil has long been supported by the German computer company Medion, which is believed to supply Force India with around $10m a year and Renault might be happy to get that money.
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Sutil and Trulli at Toyota would be interesting. From what I read of the Thursday press conference, the fisticuffs are continuing from Brasil (albeit verbally) so there would be no love lost I suspect.
Indeed, I wonder if we have a possibility for one of those hybrid sports. No doubt you have heard of Chess Boxing – three minutes of boxing, three minutes of chess and so on. Here is the new hybrid sport. F1 Boxing. 10 laps of the track, in the ring for 3 minutes. Back in the car, etc
Trulli and Sutil in the same team after today’s press conference? That would be interesting… but not likely.
James Allen has mentioned reports of Timo signing for Renault already. Any truth to that? Kathi of Sidepodcast has also brought up stories from Kimi’s manager saying that they’re now just talking to McLaren. It looks like Sutil’s options are now down to Toyota or Force India.
Adrian Sutil’s future? Well, its going to be in someone else’s hands, unless he has a ton of money backing him from some as yet unidentified sponsor! All a driver that has been in F1 for three years, with as little results as he’s had, can do is sit tight, keep quite and hope!
He is, sad to say, a journeyman driver that has the occasional result that gets his small fan base fired up. As we saw in Brazil, when he pushes that little bit harder, the end result is predictable. History has shown that unless a driver has produced a result, or two, by there third year in F1, then they are not long for the series, maybe one more year if there lucky. He is one of those guys that arrive, drive and leave with very little to show for it. In F1 when you are being sold on price, someone will always undercut you.
TBH, neither driver is really desirable, but it depends on the budget and what choices are left over, I guess!
Hey Joe. I’ve read in a brazilian newspaper a few days ago that Bruno Senna was going to test for Renault (any true on that?). Since Senna is supported by Petrobras, wouldn’t him be a better choice to Renault?
To be fair to him, Trulli ran him off the road in Brazil, Kimi ran into him at Monaco last year, and I can’t remember who’s fault it was earlier in the year when he clashed with Kimi again.
But I don’t think all the blame can be laid at his door for the crashes. Remember Coulthard last year – was that all his fault? Some people are just unlucky and for all those that say you create your own luck, that only really works up to a point.
If he went to Renault and has a problem at corner 17 at Singapore, nobody would be suspicious !
“History has shown that unless a driver has produced a result, or two, by there third year in F1, then they are not long for the series, maybe one more year if there lucky.”
What about this year’s champion? How many race wins, nay podiums, had he got by the end of year 3?
(for the record, it’s none. However in year 5 he was third in the championship… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenson_Button#Complete_Formula_One_results)
I think Sutil is pretty good. He does indeed get in a lot of accidents but I see that as being part of hustling what has been mostly slower cars from the back, into the midfield (and higher, this season).
Whether he moves on or not, I don’t know, but I have found it odd that in such an open driver market his name has been mentioned very little, until now.
I think that this is because those who recognise these things (and I do not claim to be one of them) understand that he is very fast, and has terrific car control but that he is also using a lot of his mental capacity to do that and there is less room for analysis than some of the other drivers.
Joe… it must be something in the water in Abu Dhabi thats making you so politically correct today (re the comment you say that people recognize these things but you are not….) LOL !!!
I am amused by the number of people that have forgotten Massa’s first 3 or 4 years in F1, when ‘crasha’ was his nick name around the forii intelligencia. 😉
Sutil looks to be pretty damn quick, with some excellent car control and would probably be an excellent #2 in a bigger team in 2010. The more I watch his incident with Trulli in Brazil, the more I am amazed the stewards called it a racing incident – for whilst I agree with them, they are not normally quite so understanding and if you had to lay blame, it would be very firmly at at the feet of Signor Trulli. Mind you, if memory serves, it’s not the first time Sutil has suffered at the hands of other, susposedly more experienced and talented drivers. One does have to wonder if Sutil’s name has been uttered in the corridors of power at Cologne and Jarno is feeling a tad miffed. Still, we shall see, Jarno is afterall a “a journeyman driver that has the occasional result that gets his small fan base fired up. As we saw in Brazil, when he pushes that little bit harder, the end result is predictable. History has shown that unless a driver has produced a result, or two, by there third year in F1, then they are not long for the series” …
…oops 😉
Given the poor showing of almost all the new drivers (grosjean/alguasari/badoer/ etc) you’d think a guy like Sutil would be in high demand as a number 2.
There’s a shortage of drivers given the competitiveness of so many cars yet Heidfeld and Sutil remain unsigned. Odd.
sutil has shown me that he deserves only the FI seat.
Sutil’s staying put
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