The Mysterious Disappearance of Adrian Sutil 

I was Adrian's teammate in A1GP world cup of motorsport in 2005/6 (different nations Germany and Pakistan but run effectively the same team Supernova racing) He was a very good driver but also very very emotional. He would actually cry and I mean tears cry or have real tantrum if something upset him and on more than one occasion. They were tricky cars to setup right and our results really fluctuated with bith cars and we struggled. It didnt go down well with him. My dad who came to watch me race in Australia had to put an arm round him console him as did I when he crashed in Australia. Totally different to what you percieve him to be (a schumacher-esque professional steely German). Also not many people know but we all believed he is closet gay (and I dont say that disrespectfully). But it was just something about him and also the extreme emotions he would convey and his slightly "camp" and feminine mannerisms. Perhaps why he probably avoids the spotlight? He was however a very nice guy once you broke down the facade and was always overly respectful to myself and my dad after we helped him in Australia. Be under no mistake he was my fastest teammate in terms along with Jose Maria Lopez that I ever came across and I came across lots of guys who are big names now.

Last weekend Adrian Sutil raced at Paul Ricard for Ferrari Challenge Europe. He won the first race and also gave an interview. It was the first time I saw him since he quit F1, he also never appeared on German TV.

Are we all forgetting driver's remourse like he saw Bianchi's crash and was at his funeral, no way he was psychologically to continue racing soon after. The long break did him well

Sutil: On course to get a good race result Kimi: *Bwoah*

Try getting an interview with Heinz-Harald Frentzen and you get almost the same story (though he did go through the post-F1-DTM career first, as so many do). I guess some people just get fed up and move on.

Sutil’s best season was definitely 2011, and missing 2012 proved to be a big loss for him with how variable that season was Still, the guy is synonymous with Force India, having spent 6 years contracted with them and 1 year with Spyker

He's not disappeared, he's just very subtil.

I was never a Sutil fan, but he always seemed to have the potential to be a very handy midfielder. That Bianchi incident killed him mentally because otherwise he'd being racing DTM or something

He also competed in the TV Total Stock Car Crash Challenge in Germany for the TV Total Team. Very obscure yearly event featuring celebrities. Basically a demolition derby, on a temporary dirt track in the Veltnis Arena. Fun little event that doesn't exist anymore.

Thank you for this. I admit that I have, occasionally, wondered whatever happened to that guy who nearly had a dream result at Monaco before getting hit coming out of the tunnel.

A friend of mine told me about a year ago, that he saw Sutil in a Bugatti in Hamburg, Germany where I live. And I was just super surprised because I was just recently wondering why nobody knew anything about him post his F1 career

Something else that really puzzles me is when u hear of or see video of successful drivers from years ago (as was shown here in a clip from a race Sutil was in) and they seem to just disappear without trace, and Wikipedia just tends to have their racing record but nothing about their personal lives or what they've been up to since they've stopped racing

Fantastic racer who never got his due. He was a beast at Force India. On another note, that Force India was the most beautiful F1 car I’ve ever seen.

I saw this guy in the private training of Spa in 2007. I stayed two days and I can tell he was the most spectacular pilot to watch on the rain! I remember when he trought the Raidillon with slides highly controlled ! He is for me one of the best pilot of the last generation but he is good guy and in our days it’s not good to be a good guy…

Living a quiet life; La Ferrari, Koeniggseg, Mclaren, Bugatti, All quiet cars you can just blend into the crowd with... 🤣

Sutil could have got a front running race seat had he not gone into rage mode in that nightclub.

Great video. Very helpful and detailled. Only thing missing is the mentioning of his musical talent. Being born into a family of musicians, Adrian developped some serious skills in playing the piano. There are still some snippets here on RU-vid.

Certainly seems like the incident involving Bianchi impacted his desire to keep racing.

You do truly amazing work. Thank you! 🏎🏁

My favourite driver! Thank you for this video

It’s the same with Charles Pic, after f1 he did a bit of FE but after that I haven’t seen him anywhere.

Basically, he went off so he could leave the limelight. Some people do. I remember wanting him to depart F1 after 2009, when it was clear he was nothing more than a solid driver, blocking better young drivers from a seat. I formed this impression after Spa and Italy. Teammate Fisichella, who was also solid, and getting solidly older, nearly won in Belgium. At Monza, a Sutil error, and for a driver who was trying to crack a top team, there was a missing edge in pace. A Hamilton/Alonso type would likely have won those races in the Force India. Then there was the 2011 Shanghai champagne glass incident. I thought that was it for him, so when he hung on, I was surprised. That he made it back for a little while - somehow. Thankfully, time moved on and so did he. Going by this video, perhaps if he'd started karting 7 years younger, he may have been great. Then again, it probably didn't, as starting late didn't hurt Sebastian Loeb too much.

I was at the Barcelona pre season testing in 2013 and he got the seat right before that test begins if I remember correctly.

What the hell. Stabbed someone in the neck. That's a murder attempt.

Stabbing someone in the neck with a wine glass is hardcore. Straight gangsta.

Great video dude. Subbed!

I think seeing the crash where the guy hit the loader was it for him. Decided that racing just wasnt for him anymore.....also I wish we could get more info on what happened in the Chinese night club

He did do some development work for Koenig including testing at Spa. Probably got a discount on one of their cars for it as payment

Really good and detailed video :)

Sounds like he’s doing exactly the right thing….living his best life and just enjoying it! 🤓

Stabbed someone in the neck with a broken champagne glass....nasty.

I'm surprised he is seemingly rich enough to buy several hypercars because he never signed with a front running team or a manufacturer in a major championship.

Great video and really appreciated the screaming exhaust at the end

God damn it, this isn't a "disappearance", Sutil just prefers to be left alone...

He was confident in the wet, albeit maybe a little too much. At least he appears to have been more successful with his financial doings than another former sportsman, BB. Disappointed his friend didn't find the time to support him in court.

Great Video!

Great Video 👏🏻👏🏻

He did disappear, too tall for the sport lol

Fisichella drove a Ferrari in Monza. Had he stayed in the Force India, he would have beaten Sutil again.

he was incredibly fast in 2009 but made to many mistakes, driving on p6 in the wet at shanghai before crashing 6 laps to the end, making the first q3 apearance for force india at the german gp with p7 and going very well in the race chasing leader barrichello by 1,5 secconds a lap before he stopped, than crashed with raikönnen while he was to overtake him at the pit exit, qualified p2 in monza due to a little error in the lesmos 0,3s ahead of the entire field exept hamilton who was a tenth in front, than chasing raikonnen the whole race without kers like fisichella did in belgium and crashed into his pit crew when he had the chance to finally overtake him. also qualified 4th in japan and 3rd in brazil. but crashed or was getting crashed again on both occasions. his 2010 and 2011 seasons were very solid then. also there is his heroic drive in the complete backmarker force india in 2008 where he had driven out a 18 seconds gap to p5 raikonnen before rosberg crashed (started on p18 with nearly the whole field in the race, would've got a 20 seconds penalty for overtaking blocked cars in the hairpin, but was setting fastest laps in this car and wouldve easily got p5 or p6 with the penalty without sc). also he was fastest in fp3 2007 there in the rain in a spyker.. his comeback race wasnt that bad either with leading the race for a few laps gaining on the "real" leaders who came out behind him on fresh tires. or overtaking 4 cars in the first lap at radillion and kemmel straight (?) in the 2007 spyker or his overtakes on button and alonso in monaco 2013. and there are a few other honorable mentions. he just didnt had the charisma and the luck to be remembered. (and destroyed many of his results by himself) but i think he is maybe THE forgotten driver of the 2000s in terms of pace edit: ok summarized a lot of the video before watching, nice work :)

interesting man and great video

Sutil was the poor man's Hülkenberg

he didnt "easily outqualify the winkelrock" and during the race was a whole other story. im devastated

Josh Revell be like: "WTF happened to Adrian Sutil?"

The gut certainly had the speed and talent to do great things in F1. But his career got halted by crashes, the champagne incident and eventually just ebbed out.

When will youtubers stop using clickbait titles, its not a disapearence not even mysterios, the man just lives a quiet live, and the video is more about his history than his ife after formula 1.

Imagine if I told you back then that Sebastián Vettel would be driving his car now

Fun Fact: Adrian Sutil is half uruguayan

A few months ago my aunt met Sutil‘s father at the road traffic office (where she works). He probably registered or re-registered a car

After finding out he stabbed someone, I think maybe it’s fine if we just forget him

The enigma. I loved Sutil during his F1 days. I personally think what happen in Japan in 2014 killed his motivation.

Bro I can't hear them screaming V8s anymore! Every time I hear one and see footage it makes me miss the V8s! Makes my hair stand up. I seriously can't believe we got rid of them...

"Sakon Yamamoto left motorsport entirely and became a politician". LoL, almost as embarrassing as becoming a porn star.

Ooooh, the osund of that F1 car at the end. Hybrid is all very nice, I drive one myself, but I don't kid myself that it's F1 technology.

The Nicolas Bentdner of F1

I'm still a big fan of Adrian Sutil.

8:35 well, just checked her insta where she is super active but no mention of Sutil from 2018, wonder did she left him or respecting his request to not include in any media post, which would be rather strange. I think they just broke up

He must still blame Hamilton for his conviction and to see him gone on to bigger success.

Brilliant

The best segment in the entire video, for me anyway, is 9:54 to 10:01. Miss that sound.

I guess you could say that his disappearance was... Sutil... I'll show myself out.

Plz show the video of his gurrrly run at the Canadian GP a while ago. So funny

Didn’t know he was in a court case

i think as he has seen what happened to bianci, hes just done with f1

Maldonade will never be forgotten, about Sutil speaks nowbody.

in a video about the disapearence of someone, why would you talk eight of 10 minutes of the video about his career?

He’s still racing

His girlfriend was 🔥

Lulu a coward? see Sutil was nostradamus almost a decade before hes exposed as one

He's already rich. Owns a couple koenigsiggrgges

He had a fight at a bar with some f1 honcho. Hamilton was his friend . When Lewis was asked to bear testimony to help sutil but he backed out.

Who remember GP Brazil 2009 ? Sutil and Truli crashed , after the race they both have conversation arguing 😂😂😂

Who?

He is only guy witness jules

Let’s hear where Ricardo Rosset is now?

HE DID WHAT LMAO

Maybe he wants to stay outside of F1 and the spotlight after he retired?

I bet Hamilton's really upset at losing this psychopath as a friend

Dang, stabbed Lotus CEO. He’s a gangsta. 🤣

wild how someone named adrian could stab someone

I think he broke up with this girl

Well, he's doing ok anyway eh! I wonder what Hamliton said or wouldn't say... Not surprised Hamiliton put himself first before a friend...

Outraced Winklehock? Are you sure?

Too busy getting busy with Hamilton

Whinginton's character comes out here doesn't it.

Didn’t he literally try to kill someone?

he found a love for buying koenigseggs

its because he is a c-word and was extremely rude to just about everyone he worked for or with.

Oh dear sir. The plural of Grand Prix is NOT Grand Preeze. Please stop saying this. The plural is Grands Prix. It's the pronounced the same as the singular. It's French. You're not the only one who say this. David Coulthard does too.

Let's be honest, it's Bottas fault 😂

I like him even less.

and there was me thinking he was found to be shit , oh well

What exactly is the „disappearing“ aspect here? You spend ages recapping his career and then say that he doesnt race anymore but does other stuff instead. Waste of time.

This guy looks frighteningly like gavin newsome, the horrible governor of California. Seems like a similar type of person, as well.

if you sound that bored speaking, imagine how we feel...

He stabbed a guy!? What!? He's right about lulu being a coward though

Another video I could have read at Wikipedia.

My God, who cares? He was a third-rate driver distinguished (barely) by some controversy.

The mysterious disappearance of…. You know everything about him, even the cars he owns. Fucking clickbait

Wow, stop stalking him and leave him alone. Guy is well off. Why in the hell would he race again?