Adrian Sutil insists he did all he could to apologise to the Lotus F1 co-owner Eric Lux after the incident between the pair i🐻n a Chinese night club last year.

Speaking in a Munich court on t🐼he 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, extremely sorry. I never wanted for this to happ♕en."

Lux however insisted that he wasn't prepared to accept the 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 losing hisꦅ Force India race seat to Nico Hulkenberg.