Motorsport

18th May 2007

The Scot said: “I think you’ll see there’s more to come from Red Bull this year. I felt after qualifying that I should have been ahead of the Ren­aults, and that’s how it turned out in the race.” But it was a nerve-wracking afternoon for the outfit after Coult­hard broke third gear and began to lose time to Williams’ Nico Rosberg.

“I thought I’d have to park the car, yet I got the situation under con
trol,” the 36-year-old said. “We’ve made more progress than any other team since the start of the year, and when you’re aggressively attacking lap times, sometimes you have to put other areas of the car to one side.

“That’s the growing pains we’re going through, but I think everyone agrees we’d rather have pace and show we are genuinely quick, then work on reliability, than have a reliable car that only finishes 10th.”

Team boss Christian Horner was full of praise. He said: “David was exemplary today. He had good pace, a good start and a good strategy. Despite a problem that gave us all a bit of a scare in the last three laps, he found a way to drive round it by using all his experience.”