DC Keen to Race On


By Ian Lockwood
October 13 2005

David Coulthard has rebuked speculation that F1 retirement might be just 19 or 20 grands prix down the road. The Scottish veteran, 34, has been retained by Red Bull Racing for the 2006 season, but it is unclear if he'll be given a racing role much beyond that.

www.f1racing.net reports that at thirty four, although Coulthard is the second oldest driver on the grid and surely closer than most to finally stepping out of the paddock, David's never had so much fun in F1, after a decade at dowdy McLaren.

''To focus on anything other than driving would be to mentally retire,'' said the winner of thirteen grands prix for Williams and McLaren. ''To go through corners like 130R at Suzuka you've got to be committed and I am. There's no point for me to think about anything else.''

''F1 is not more important than life itself,'' David Coulthard said this week, ''(but) at various other points in my career I'm not sure I'd have seen it that way.''

Source: www.f1racing.net


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