Former Force India Formula One driver Adrian Sutil has been given an 18 month suspended jail sentence and has been fined €200,000 by a German court after the German driver plead guilty to causing bodily harm to Eric Lux, the co owner of the Lotus GrandPrix team during an incident in a shanghai night club in April of last year.
The pair were attending a party hosted by the McLaren Formula One team to celebrate Lewis Hamilton's win at the 2011 Chinese GrandPrix.The McLaren driver, a close friend of Mr Sutil's was expected to give evidence at the the trial however he was unable to attend the case due to work commitments. He is set to attend the launch of his team's new car alongside Jenson Button at the team's factory in Woking tomorrow (Wednesday).
On Monday the court heard that Mr Sutil had contacted Mr Lux by phone to apology for the incident however Mr Lux said that the phone apology had not been enough. Mr Sutil said on Monday that he had never intended to injury Mr Lux and was extremely sorry that the incident had happened.
Sutil had been in contention for a drive with the Williams Renault team alongside Pastor Maldonado, however any chances he had of a drive with the Grove based team disappeared last week when the team announced they had signed Bruno Senna for the 2012 season.
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