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Sutil in Thursday Five
By Karl King July 18 2008
Here we bring you the transcript of Adrian Sutil's press conference on Thursday, handily edited to give just the Force India driver's answers. In this session Adrian talked about his upcoming first home race, the current position of development at Force India and his thoughts about new street circuits.

Q: A question to you all. What are your feelings about your home grand prix and given you tested here last week?
Adrian SUTIL: It was quite nice testing. I really like the circuit here. Hopefully we are a bit more competitive here. The testing went well and we found our set-up but again testing is testing and the race is the race, so we will see how we are going to go. I have to stay realistic and I think it is going to be hard to be in the second qualifying. That should be our goal again but it will be difficult.

Q: And it’s your first German Grand Prix.
AS: It’s my first German Grand Prix. I am happy to be here really, Hockenheim is one of my favourite circuits. I have had many races here and nearly all with very good memories. The lay-out is very, very nice and the special atmosphere in the Motodrom as always is a special thing here.

Q: Adrian, there seems to have been a lot of development on the car over the last two or three tests. How are you feeling about it and particularly also how are you feeling about the fact that Dr Mallya has now said that is the end of the development?
AS: I am always happy to get new parts on the car. We definitely need it and at the moment we need to find some seconds actually. It is not that easy, but we are doing small steps. There is another update for this race now. It is getting better but at the moment I think a little bit too slow, so we have to figure out where is the main thing we have to make progress. But everybody tries really hard and also Mr Mallya is really into it and is trying to get us up in the result sheets but it needs some time. We just have to concentrate on the work, always stay motivated and then for sure the success will come soon.

Q: (Heinz Prüller – ORF) Gentlemen, can you tell us when you first raced here in Hockenheim, and your best and worst memories here?
AS: My first race was in Formula Ford in 2002. It was quite funny because on the Saturday I did the Formula Ford race and won it, and on the Sunday I got into a Formula BMW car and I won this race as well, so I have good memories of this weekend. The worst one, I think, was in 2004. It was a good opportunity to get into a Formula Three car in a winning team at the end of the season. I was able to put the car on pole position and I was leading the race for the first time and then I had a technical failure and had to stop, so it was a really disappointing end to the season but one of my main steps in the direction of Formula One.

Q: (Andrea Schneider – Autosport es Formula) A question to all of you: what do you think about the new circuits like Singapore and Valencia?
AS: I think it’s a good idea really. I’m a fan of street circuits anyway, so I think it’s a good move because the atmosphere is special, the people like street circuits very much, you can see that at many races, and as I said, the atmosphere is always very different to a normal circuit. The night race in Singapore should be a great party for all the quests and all the fans. I think it will be a good step for this sport, a little bit into another world. In recent years we’ve always had normal races. Now we are going in a different area; we’re doing a night race, we do more street circuits. I think it’s very positive for the sport.

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