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.

Speakꦚing 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 am really sorry, extr🍬emely sorry. I never wanted for this to happen."

Lux however insisted that he wasn't prepared to accept the apology that had bee♓n offer𝔉ed.

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

Sutil, who could face a suspended sent𝓡ence if found guilty, is without a drive for 2012 after losing his Force India🎀 race seat to Nico Hulkenberg.