Adrian Sutil on his way to a spectacular DNF at Monaco in 2008.
Adrian Sutil plays the piano well, speaks several languages and also happens to be a Formula One driver, the git.
On the way to F1, he raced in the All-Japan Formula Three Championship, Formula Masters Austria and even Swiss Formula Ford, which came as a bit of a surprise to us because we had it on good authority that motorsport had been outlawed in the land of cuckoo clocks, disappointing cheese and iffy bank accounts. Shows what we know.
Sutil also dabbled in A1GP, using the fact of his father's ancestry to race for Team Germany, although he could just as easily have driven for Uruguay (had there been such a team), by virtue of his mother's country of birth, or indeed for any other team on the grid, by virtue of A1GP's celebrated relaxed attitude towards the concept of nationality.
In F1, Sutil has driven for Midland, Spyker and Force India, all of which are, of course, the same team. It was his bad luck to join what used to be the Jordan team at the start of its most turbulent and unstable period, although on the plus side, he now has lifetime supplies of Kingfisher beer, Dutch sports cars and whatever it is that Midland make.