Adrian Sutil insists he did a♐ll he could to apologise to the Lotus F1 co-owner E🍨ric Lux after the incident between the pair in a Chinese night club last year.

Speaking in a Munich court on the first d🀅ay of a hearing into the incident, the former Force I🍬ndia 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 20💞12 after losing his Force India race seat to Nico Hulkenberg.