{"id":18007,"date":"2013-03-18T07:08:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18007"},"modified":"2013-03-18T07:08:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T11:08:00","slug":"sutil-stuns-paddock-with-f1-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/sutil-stuns-paddock-with-f1-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Sutil stuns paddock with F1 comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian Sutil stunned the F1 paddock on Sunday by looking so competitive on his return to the sport after a season away.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Adrian-Sutil\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Adrian-Sutil.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>Written off by some after his 2011 assault conviction, the German is back with Force India this season and in Melbourne even led some laps &#8212; a first in his career.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sutil&#8217;s performance was more convincing than anything his fellow countryman Michael Schumacher produced in (the last) three years,&#8221; Independent newspaper correspondent David Tremayne wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Sutil ultimately finished seventh in Melbourne as his tyre strategy played out, but the 30-year-old told Auto Motor und Sport: &#8220;It is surprising how well it went.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I saw P1 on the pit board, it was quite a feeling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Deputy team boss Bob Fernley, however, insists he was not overly surprised.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During the testing, if you had analysed it, you could see the promise,&#8221; he is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>First to seventh might then sound disappointing, but Sutil could not stop smiling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Considering that three weeks ago I didn&#8217;t even have a seat and was only able to test for three days in Barcelona, it could hardly have gone better,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian Sutil stunned the F1 paddock on Sunday by looking so competitive on his return to the sport after a season away. Written off by some after his 2011 assault conviction, the German is back with Force India this season and in Melbourne even led some laps &#8212; a first in his career. &#8220;Sutil&#8217;s performance &#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":[5311,3171,5262,576,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18007"}],"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=18007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18008,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18007\/revisions\/18008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}