Question: The next Grand Prix takes place on your home soil in Germany. What does it mean to race in front of your home crowd?
Adrian Sutil: The German Grand Prix is always a special event for me and to race at the Nurburgring has a great feeling. The atmosphere is really special there as the big Nurburgring, the Nordschleife, has so much racing history, it’s perhaps one of the most famous circuits in the world. Everywhere around the circuit is just about racing - go into a restaurant and you see a lot of pictures of cars or drivers. It’s a great place to be, and to race there as a German gives a special feeling, like you’re stepping into the history.
Question: How is the new Nurburgring for you personally?
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Adrian Sutil: I like it a lot. It’s a good circuit that can be quite tricky to get right. There’s a lot of banking and the corners make it difficult to find a good set up as the car behaves differently in different corners, it surprises you. This circuit flows up and down and when you go to the Dunlop corner it’s steep downhill with camber, so it’s interesting in this way. Of course the track is much more modern than the Nordschleife but there are still famous and tricky corners so it remains a challenge.
Question: Looking at your season so far, it’s just over the midpoint of the season. Has it been as expected for you?
Adrian Sutil: I think it’s been a good season so far. We have been able to finish a lot of races and in the last two or three events it was possible to go into Q2, which was a big success for us. For sure the last race in Silverstone was a bit disappointing as it was an important race with our new updates and we had an incident in qualifying. Without this I think we could have been really close to the points, or even in the points. But overall we are making progress and that’s the most important.
Question: You and Giancarlo (Fisichella) have been very evenly matched this year. How is he as a team mate?
Adrian Sutil: It’s really good to have him as a team mate. Last year I learnt quite a lot and this year we are still very close to each other, which is what you want in a team-mate. Looking at the other teams I think we are the closest to each other in times and qualifying position: we are generally always one position in front of each other. In some other teams you don’t have that - sometimes one guy is in the top 10, the other is last and then it changes the next race, so there is much more offset. With us we’re pushing each other all the way. It’s a strong team, both of us are doing well and the competition is good.
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