Adrian Sutil continued the Force India F1 Team's run of points finishes in today's British Grand Prix. The 27-year-old German secured a hard-fought eighth position, his sixth consecutive top ten finish, to bring the team's season total so far to 47 points. Tonio Liuzzi similarly put in a fighting performance to end the race in 11th position, less than a second from tenth and nine positions up from grid slot.

Both Adrian and Tonio had good first laps, with Adrian up to fifth by the time of his first stop on lap 15. On rejoining Adrian dropped to 13th behind Pedro de la Rosa, but was able to move back to tenth on lap 26 when he passed the Spaniard on the straight. Pedro's rear wing however came apart, dropping carbon shards on the racing line. A safety car period ensued, after which Adrian was quickly elevated to eighth when Alonso served a drivethrough penalty for passing Kubica off the track. Adrian then scythed past Michael Schumacher through Luffield for seventh, but soon found a charging Vettel in his mirrors. Vettel - third in the championship going into this race - tried every which way to pass Adrian, however he kept him behind for 10 laps until Vettel eventually squeezed past on the final lap.



Adrian's comment: "It was fun and quite an interesting race. We started on the hard tyre as we wanted to try a long stint at the start but it was not really possible as the tyres didn't behave well at the beginning. I didn't have enough grip on the car so we came in to do an early stop and go on the soft tyre, so really the opposite strategy to everyone else. It worked well although the last ten laps were tough. But we managed it and there were some really good fights with Schumacher and then Vettel. It was good racing and I defended my position well against Vettel until the final lap, but then he just seemed to drive into me and I lost the racing line and had to move over. Otherwise I don't think he would have got past me. All the same eighth position was a good result in the end, it's more points and it keeps that momentum going. I'm really looking forward to my home Grand Prix in Germany next."