David Coulthard
Formula 1 Legend, commentator and entrepreneur
Biografie
David Coulthard dominated Britain's junior Formula Ford categories in 1989 and became the first ever recipient of the McLaren Autosport BRDC Award for young drivers. In 1991 he fought a titanic battle with future Formula 1 rival Rubens Barrichello for the British Formula 3 Championship, and won the prestigious Macau F3 Grand Prix.
He joined the Williams Formula 1 team as a test driver in 1993, and after competing in eight grands prix for the team in the 1994 season he became a full-time F1 driver in 1995. That year he won the Portuguese Grand Prix and finished third in the championship.
After moving to McLaren, David took his new team's first win in three seasons at the 1997 Australian Grand Prix. In all, he scored 12 of his 13 grand prix wins and 51 of his 62 podium finishes with McLaren, and, after supporting team-mate Mika Häkkinen to the drivers' championship in 1998 and '99, he finished runner-up to Michael Schumacher in 2001.
In 2005 David moved to the newly formed Red Bull Racing team. By the time he retired from Formula 1, in 2008, he had notched up 535 points, making him the highest scoring British driver of all time.
Coulthard returned to racing as an active driver in the DTM series in 2010, piloting a 2008 Mercedes-Benz C-Class for Mücke Motorsport.
Coulthard now uses his talents in the business arena from starting a number of successful businesses to ambassador roles to guest speaking.
Inzetbaarheid
Spreker
David Coulthard brings audiences an inside look into the hyper-paced world of Formula One where business and sport combine to run the ultimate high-performance teams. Teamwork, risk management, change, planning and preparation, resilience, commitment and ultimately winning are topics that David is well versed and experienced talking about.
David’s preferred speaking format is as a double-act, a content-rich presentation with Mark Gallagher, but he is also happy to participate in a moderated presentation with a client’s host, or to deliver a solo speech combined with Q&A.
Speaking Topics
- Motivation - How to succeed in the high performance, high pressure world of Formula One, and consistently reach peak performance levels
- Teamwork - How a top Formula One team enables drivers, technicians and engineers, and sponsors to work together to create a winning team.
- Leadership - Examples of great leadership that David has observed in his Formula One career and lessons he has learned.
Literatuur
The Winning Formula
In The Winning Formula, driver, commentator and entrepreneur David Coulthard opens the doors to the secretive world of F1 and reveals in simple, entertaining and utterly compelling terms how he has been able to master this mind-boggling variety of disciplines by applying the skills honed from his years at the top of the world's most demanding motorsport.
It Is What It Is
The stunningly honest and revealing autobiography of the most successful British Grand Prix driver of all time.