While many focus their attention of front runners and big names like Shu, Kimi, and Fernando, we must never lose sight of the incredible job David Coulthard did in 2005. He appeared to be out of a ride after McLaren and he parted ways. But he got a ride in Red Bull for 2005, despite Red Bull's obvious strategy of promoting new, young drivers. For many, it was assumed that after 2005, DC would be out of Red Bull. But as we all witnessed, he brought a lot to Red Bull, and gave them good results, as well as the self confidence to believe in themselves. In fact, he did such a good job, they decided to keep him around for 2006. We shall never know how much his presence in Red Bull influenced their expansion into Toro Rossi, but I suspect it was a major factor. As a side note, he and Red Bull proved how messed up and incompetent the management structure was at Ford, when they took a car that had pathetic results, and turned it into a genuine racer.
And consider this .. what if McLaren had decided to keep him instead of Montoya? I'm a staunch supported of JPM, in fact I predict he will be a contender for the title. But Ron Dennis and his gang must have nightmares, because if they had kept DC, he most probably would have secured enough points to hand McLaren the Constructor's title.
David Coulthard, despite being in the twilight of your F1 career, you still get the job done, my hat's off to you.
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