“I am excited about tomorrow”After 14 years in Formula One, David Coulthard has seen it all. The Red Bull Renault driver has a refreshing view on how the sport has evolved since his debut with Williams Renault in 1994 and he is keen to see the next wave of developments.
“Just look at the technology that has changed since I started in 1994,” Coulthard said in a press conference with the media at Monaco. “There were wide cars, slick tyres, no traction control, 3.5 litre engines through to what we have today. Someone asked me a question earlier about the future of diesel F1 cars… Bring it on! If that’s the future, then that is what we will have. I am not one of these people who live for ‘oh, it was nice yesterday’. I am excited about tomorrow.”
“I know there are a number of your colleagues who still think the 70’s was the best F1 racing well, you know, I’ve got news for them: we can’t go back and the world can’t go back,” Coulthard continued. “I am sure it was a much nicer place then that today in many respects. To return to the first part of your question, I don’t think about age. I didn’t think about age when I was 11 years old racing against 16-year-olds which at that time was a big difference.
I am not sure that my balls had dropped then and some guys at 16 were shaving. I don’t think about the age today.”
“As Lewis has shown, and as Fernando showed, and who-ever, Kimi when he came in… If you are good enough, you are old enough. And if you are good enough you are not too old until such time as your age physically is affecting your ability to drive the car. I don’t personally believe that is the case for me. I don’t think Michael retired because he was too old; I think (it was) for various other reasons that we’ll probably never really understand and, well, we all make a choice in life and my choice is to be here because I love to go racing. And, why stop doing something that I love when I have the opportunity to continue?”
Coulthard’s contract with Red Bull is up at the end of the season, but it pretty clear that the veteran is more than ready for another season of Formula One.
Source FIA
