{"id":10683,"date":"2011-01-24T06:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=10683"},"modified":"2011-01-24T06:32:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T11:32:00","slug":"honest-sutil-is-among-best-in-f1-szafnauer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/honest-sutil-is-among-best-in-f1-szafnauer\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Honest&#8217; Sutil is among best in F1 &#8211; Szafnauer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With an announcement believed to be imminent, it is expected that Adrian Sutil is definitely staying with Force India in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The Silverstone based team&#8217;s chief operating officer Otmar Szafnauer has admitted that while Sutil is sometimes outspoken, he is among F1&#8217;s very best drivers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is sometimes almost too honest,&#8221; Szafnauer, referring to the team&#8217;s ever-present German racer, told Auto Motor und Sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In terms of driving, he sits directly behind Alonso, Hamilton, Vettel and Kubica among the category of the top drivers in formula one,&#8221; he insisted.<\/p>\n<p>Force India&#8217;s team boss and owner Vijay Mallya told the same German publication that he is also happy with 28-year-old Sutil.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He has grown with the team and contributed to our improvements,&#8221; said the Indian billionaire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is also developing personally and I expect this upwards trend to continue,&#8221; added Mallya.<\/p>\n<p>On an outing near his Swiss home with a German reporter and Sutil&#8217;s TechArt Porsche GT2, the 71-grand prix veteran confirmed Force India&#8217;s progress of the past years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The organisation is better, Mercedes and McLaren have helped us and our design department is working professionally,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>And after the team&#8217;s top form of 2009, Sutil admitted he is hoping to get another chance at securing a place on the podium.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were down in the pack and then so suddenly in it to win, and I was so excited and surprised that I didn&#8217;t manage a perfect lap in qualifying,&#8221; he rued.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With an announcement believed to be imminent, it is expected that Adrian Sutil is definitely staying with Force India in 2011. The Silverstone based team&#8217;s chief operating officer Otmar Szafnauer has admitted that while Sutil is sometimes outspoken, he is among F1&#8217;s very best drivers. &#8220;He is sometimes almost too honest,&#8221; Szafnauer, referring to the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5311,5262,576,5340,293,292],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10684,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10683\/revisions\/10684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}