Adrian Sutil, convicted this week of grievous bodily harm, has angrily slammed his former friend Lewis Hamilton.<\/p>\n
Hamilton, the 2008 world champion and McLaren driver, declined to appear as a witness in former Force India driver Sutil’s trial this week over the assault of Lotus team executive Eric Lux.<\/p>\n
Hamilton was sitting beside German Sutil, 29, at the time of the incident, but the Briton wrote in a statement to the Munich court that he could not remember the details of the scuffle.<\/p>\n
He declined to appear as a witness ostensibly due to the proximity to the launch date of his 2012 car.<\/p>\n
“Lewis is a coward,” Bild newspaper quotes Sutil as saying.<\/p>\n
“I don’t want to be friends with someone like that.\u00a0 If you ask me he’s not a man as even his father sent me a text message, wishing me the best of luck for the hearing.<\/p>\n
“From Lewis, nothing.\u00a0 He even changed his number so I couldn’t reach him,” he added.<\/p>\n
Sutil’s manager Manfred Zimmermann insists the criminal conviction does not endanger his FIA superlicense, the mandatory credential for racing in formula one.<\/p>\n
But he conceded that it is “almost impossible” that Sutil will be on the 2012 grid.<\/p>\n
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