The modern Nurburgring first hosted an F1 race in 1984 and again in 1985 but it did not return to the calendar until 1995 at the peak of Michael Schumacher's success. At the time, the Eifel track's event was called the European GP as Hockenheim hosted the German Grand Prix, however in 1997 and 1998 it was renamed the Luxembourg GP to leave Jerez access to the European mantle. From 2007 the Nürburgring and the Hockenheimring have alternated years as the host of the German Grand Prix and and it's the latter's turn this year.

The old Nurburgring-Nordschleife sends a shiver down every Grand Prix driver's spine, however the newer incarnation is decidedly tame by comparison to its historic and intimidating 14 mile, 174 corner predecessor.

The new, purpose-built track was completed in 1984 to meet the highest safety standards and further changes came in 2002 when the former 'Castrol-chicane' at the end of the start/finish straight was replaced by a sharp right-hander to create an overtaking opportunity. Also, a slow section was inserted, on the site of the former kart track, thus extending the track.

The German Grand Prix is Force India’s Adrian's Sutil’s home event, although his family are based some 550km away in the south of Germany. Twenty-six year old Adrian was born in Starnberg, just outside Munich.

It's just over the midpoint of the season. Looking at your season so far, has it been as expected for you?
I think it's been a good season so far. We have been able to finish a lot of races and in the last two or three events it was possible to go into Q2, which was a big success for us. For sure the last race in Silverstone was a bit disappointing as it was an important race with our new updates and we had an incident in qualifying. Without this I think we could have been really close to the points, or even in the points. But overall we are consistently making progress and that's the most important.

Have you had any ill effects from the crash in Silverstone?
No not at all. I'm completely fine now and looking forward to Germany!

What can we expect in Germany from you?
Q2 would be very nice and hopefully it would be enough for some points. It's definitely time to get a few. Let's see what the other teams have update-wise as I expect maybe one or two to move a bit to the front and we don't have a major update this time round. But we were pretty strong in Silverstone and I expect to be similar in Germany.