Adrian Sutil insists he did all he could to apologise to the Lotus F1 co-owner 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, the former Force India driver 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. "I am𒊎 really sorry, extremely sor🧔ry. I never wanted for this to happen."

Lux however insisted that h🐓e wasn't prepared to accept t🐷he apology that had been offered.

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

Sutil, who could face🐻 a suspended sentence if found guilty, is without a drive for 2012 after los🃏ing his Force India race seat to Nico Hulkenberg.