DC fined, then told to “shut up” by Super Aguri backmarker

The broad-chinned Scot is having something of a season horribilis, so far at least. He has yet to score a single point in four grands prix for Red Bull, prompting many people to say “You’re a bit crap these days, hang up your racing gloves”, or words to that effect. He looks especially bad when team-mate Mark Webber is going round and round considerably faster than him.

On top of that, he has just been told to “shut up” by fellow Brit Anthony Davidson, who drives for Super Aguri. DC complained about the Honda-powered strugglers this week, calling them “Stupid Aguri” (clever, Dave, like your work).

Davidson replied to Coulthard’s taunt by saying:

“They [well, Coulthard mostly] can shut right up… When you can hardly see what the hell is going on because the car is shaking around so much, and you’re just fully focused on keeping the damn thing on the track, the last thing you can do is be bothered about others trying to lap you.

“I’d love to swap cars with these drivers. I really believe some of them would struggle, or even crack, if they were in our position.”

Yeah DC, you can indeed “shut right up” or he’ll tell on you to teacher (Mr Ecclestone).

But wait, before you go off to look for porn, there’s more…

Coulthard was fined €4,000 for missing the compulsory drivers’ parade prior to Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix. According to Autosport, Coulthard tried to get the fine dropped, when he was summoned to see the race stewards to talk about his collision with Timo Glock in the race. Apparently, this is what Coulthard had to say about the fine:

“When I was with the stewards I said thank you for hearing what I had to say about the race, but can we talk about another event.

“I said: ‘You’ve fined me 4,000 Euros, I’ve done 230-odd Grands Prix and never missed one except for Malaysia where I was ill and in the medical centre. So that’s 4,000 Euros out of my children’s inheritance!’

“There was no reaction from them. No smile or anything. So I then said to them: ‘Okay, let’s cut it to 2000 Euros if I pay in cash.’ Still no reaction… So I then asked (FIA representative) Alan Donnelly if he could translate that, because that is somewhat funny in English. But he said it was only funny in Scottish…”

Yes, because Coulthard can’t afford four grand, can he?