Sutil attempted to end a simmering spat with Toyota's Jarno Trulli on Friday by offering to draw his Formula One rival some Mickey Mouse pictures.
Adrian Sutil attempted to end a simmering spat with Toyota's Jarno Trulli on Friday by offering to draw his Formula One rival some Mickey Mouse pictures to carry around.
The two drivers almost came to blows in Brazil two weeks ago when they collided on the first lap at Interlagos and revived their argument when they arrived in Abu Dhabi for Sunday's season-ender.
They traded barbs on Thursday, with Italian Trulli bringing photographs into a news conference and then questioning the German's eyesight when the Force India driver suggested he was "freaking out".
Trulli was seen heading to a drivers' briefing and meeting of the Grand Prix Drivers' Association (GPDA) on Friday with a laptop under his arm but complained afterwards that there had not been time to discuss the accident.
Sutil told reporters he had had enough of it all anyway. "He came across with his notebook but nobody listened to him," he said.
"Hopefully it is (finished). He will walk around with his pictures for a few weeks more and tell everybody but... maybe I will draw a picture for him with a Mickey Mouse, or Donald Duck or a Goofy or whatever.
"It's done. I cannot listen to it any more." Trulli told Reuters that he hoped the drivers could meet again before Sunday's race and said the issue was about general safety and not just his accident.
"It's something that needs to be discussed as a safety issue, not only my accident, several other accidents and driving manoeuvres we have seen in the last few races," he said. "I was not there to discuss one accident, I was there to discuss, between all of us, the behaviour we agreed on a long time ago.
"We should try and meet up on Sunday in order to discuss the behaviour, but if we can't agree between us, I now who I can trust and cannot trust," said the angry Italian. "It doesn't change anything for me."
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