Adrian Sutil came home in 15th position respectively at the end the 2011 Chinese Grand Prix. Adrian made a good race start with making up three positions to P8 by the end the first lap. Unfortunately, the usual front runners who had started lower down the grid were just too strong as the race unfolded, and an incident with Perez forced Adrian to come into the pits for an unscheduled nose change in the latter stage of the race.

Adrian after the race: "I was unlucky with the incident with Perez, which cost me the race. But in the end we had problems as well with the tyres, they didn't last as long as we thought and I was just struggling the whole time. We have to understand why we were not so competitive in the race this time; in qualifying we were much better, so we will go away, analyse everything and I think it is good that we have the break now before the next race in Europe. The team back at the factory did a good job to get us to where we are after these first three races; we just need to work out what happened in particular today to bring both qualifying and race performances together."