Adrian Sutil has been signed as Christijan Albers' team-mate at Spyker for the 2007 F1 season.

Sutil started karting at 14 before moving up to Swiss Formula Ford 1800 in 2002. He won all 10 rounds of the season from pole and added five wins in the Formula Masters Austria Championship.

A move to the Formula BMW ADAC Championship in 2003, though, saw the German cut down to size as he failed to win a single race and only managed sixth place overall.

The following season he stepped up to the Formula 3 Euroseries with Colin Kolles' team. Although he scored only twice the connection he made with Kolles would prove useful in the future, and he moved to the ASM team at the final round of the year.

He stayed with ASM for 2005 and was joined by British driver Lewis Hamilton, who beat him to the championship title.

Sutil moved to Japan the following year and won the domestic Formula Three Championship. He also got his big breakthrough into F1 in 2006 when Kolles, who had joined the Midland F1 team as their team boss, signed the German to contest three grand prix Fridays for the struggling outfit.

Sutil's performances saw him rewarded with a promotion to a race seat for 2007 when he will parnter Albers at the team, which will now be known as Spyker.