David Coulthard

In 1993 he joined the Williams Formula 1 team as test driver, he made his Formula 1 World Championship debut for the team the following year. Which led to his first Formula 1 victory, at the Portuguese Grand Prix in 1995.

David the joined McLaren in 1996, he played a key role in helping McLaren to win the Formula One World Championships for Constructors in 1998, the team then finishing 2nd in 1999, 2000 and 2001.

In 2005 David went to be a founding member of the Red Bull Racing team. Coulthard brought the team its first podium finish in 2006 in Monaco, and was instrumental in developing it into a 4-times World Championship winning team in 2010-13.

In 2019, David became non-Executive Chairman of W Series, the world’s first professional all-women single seater racing series, and he was elected President of the British Racing Drivers Club which owns and operates Silverstone Circuit in the UK.

David Coulthard has established a successful second career as a world class broadcaster and commentator, initially with BBC Television and more recently at Channel 4, for which David’s production company Whisper Films produces the television coverage of Formula One in the UK.