Adrian🅠 Sutil insists he did all he could to apologise to the Lotus F1 co-own💞er Eric Lux after the incident between the pair in a Chinese night club last year.

Speaking in a Munich court on the first day of a hearing into the incident, ܫthe former Force India drive🌞r insisted he had apologised on more than one occasion to Lux about what happened and had offered to support a charity project in Africa.

"I did everything to try to settle this row," Sutil said according to a report on Reuters. "𝕴I am really sorry, extremely sorry. I never wanted for this to happen."

Lux however insisted that he wasn't prepared to acc♐ept the apology that had been offered.

"A phone call is not enough," he said.

Sutil, who could face a suspended sentence if found guil🍬ty, is without a drive for 2012 after losing his Force India race seat to Nico Hulkenberg🍸.