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David Coulthard is a Grand Prix champion, media personality, and entrepreneur who brings unparalleled insights into high performance, teamwork, and pushing past limits.
With 13 Grand Prix wins, a career spanning 15 years in Formula 1, and an unmistakable presence on global broadcasts, David Coulthard is one of the sport’s most iconic figures. He’s not only a racing legend but also a dynamic keynote speaker and entrepreneur, sharing lessons on resilience, performance, and leadership from the highest levels of motorsport.
From racing wheel-to-wheel with Schumacher and Häkkinen to interviewing modern champions on the global F1 stage, David has lived and led in high-stakes environments. Today, he speaks to corporate audiences around the world, blending captivating stories with actionable takeaways for any team looking to accelerate performance.
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Born in Twynholm, Scotland, David Coulthard began racing at age 11. He quickly rose through the motorsport ranks—earning the first McLaren Autosport Young Driver of the Year Award (1989) and winning the prestigious Macau Grand Prix—before making his Formula 1 debut with Williams in 1994. A year later, he secured his first Grand Prix victory in Portugal.
David joined McLaren in 1996 and raced alongside Mika Häkkinen and later Kimi Räikkönen in one of the sport’s most iconic lineups. Over nine seasons, he claimed 12 Grand Prix wins and finished in the top 3 in the World Championship five times. Twice a winner of both the Monaco and British Grands Prix, David became one of the most consistent and respected drivers on the grid.
In 2005, Coulthard joined the newly formed Red Bull Racing and helped shape the team’s competitive foundation. He secured their first-ever podium at Monaco in 2006, laying the groundwork for Red Bull’s eventual dominance. When he retired in 2008, David had amassed 13 wins, 62 podiums, and 535 career points—the most by any United Kingdom driver in F1 history at the time.
Since retiring from racing, David has remained a central figure in Formula 1. He is the lead commentator for Channel 4’s F1 coverage in the UK, conducts podium interviews for the global F1 broadcast, and regularly pilots Red Bull F1 cars in live demonstrations around the world. He’s also the co-founder of Whisper, one of Europe’s fastest-growing media production companies, and Velocity Experience, a corporate events firm. Additionally, in 2022, he co-founded More Than Equal, a pioneering initiative aimed at helping the first woman race in Formula 1’s modern era. Lastly, he serves as President of the British Racing Drivers’ Club, which owns and operates Silverstone Circuit in the UK.
David is the author of two acclaimed books—It Is What It Is, his autobiography, and The Winning Formula, a Sunday Times bestseller that examines what elite teams have in common. In 2023, he launched the Formula for Success podcast with fellow F1 veteran Eddie Jordan.
He often serves as an ambassador for global brands including Red Bull, IWC Schaffhausen, and UBS, and is a powerful advocate for safety and performance through Red Bull’s Wings for Life foundation.
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From managing risk at 200 mph to staying calm under immense pressure, David brings powerful insights from his racing career to the boardroom. His keynote delivers stories and strategies on:
For a more informal or interactive format, David excels in fireside chats and audience Q&As—perfect for executive retreats, leadership summits, and authentic takeaways. Each appearance is customized to connect his experience with your goals, audience, and themes.
Few people have made the transition from elite sportsperson to multi-faceted entrepreneur with as much skill, flair and success as Formula 1 driver David Coulthard. Winner of thirteen Grands Prix, Coulthard has also made his mark in hotel ownership, property, consultancy, film production and most famously media work, as lead TV pundit. In Driven, 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. By recounting his own stories, and combining them with first-hand experience of stellar individuals such as Michael Schumacher,Ron Dennis, Sir Frank Williams, Christian Horner and Sebastian Vettel, Coulthard provides a fascinating fly-on-the-wall insight into F1 but at the same time offers an invaluable guide to the business of sport and the sport of business.
The stunningly honest and revealing autobiography of the most successful British Grand Prix driver of all time
From his quiet beginnings in rural Scotland to his multi-millionaire lifestyle in Monte Carlo, where he owns one of the most luxurious hotels in the principality, David Coulthard's life story is an extraordinary one. He got his breakthrough into Formula One in the tragic circumstances of Ayrton Senna's death in 1994, and quickly established himself as one of the best drivers on the circuit. From 1996-2004, he drove for McLaren, one of the leading teams throughout the entire period, before moving to Red Bull for 2005-07.
Taking the reader from his early days when he first became hooked on racing karts at the age of eleven to the high-speed world of Formula One, Coulthard has written one of the most honest and powerful sports autobiographies of recent years. He talks frankly about his ups and downs at McLaren and also about the reputation he gained for his playboy lifestyle. Throughout it all he seeks to answer the questions about himself that anyone might ask, and so to reveal what it is that really drives him on. His struggle to understand himself makes for a remarkable memoir.
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