Adrian Sutil savours tough battles with Vettel and Schumacher

Adrian Sutil continued the Force India F1 Team's run of points finishes in the 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.

Sutil said: "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.

Ten laps
"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."

Team principal Dr Vijay Mallya was a happy man. "I'm really proud of both drivers here today - both demonstrated great racing acumen to keep positions."