Oliver White
While testing yesterday around the notoriously bumpy Circuit de Catalunya, it appears that David Coulthard has picked up a minor injury in his neck. The Scot has apparently tweaked his neck and has since decided to rest in case the problem is further exacerbated. So while Coulthard sits on the sidelines Red Bull have drafted in Sebastian Vettel to help out with the team’s testing programme. Vettel, who drives for partner team Scuderia Toro Rosso, will see the benefits from testing with the Red Bull squad as it has been said that the new STR3 will be a direct derivative of the RB4. The new STR is due to be delivered to the team in time for the European season.
Coulthard should be back in the cockpit tomorrow, the team keen to get as many miles on the clock as possible in the run-up to the 2008 season start in a couple of weeks. The final decision though will not be made until tomorrow morning once David has given his neck a chance to rest.
Get well soon DC!
This would hopefully be the explanation for his dismal performance in yesterday’s test – had hoped his limited number of laps wasn’t due to unreliability on the car’s part!
[…] Michael Schumacher körde inte under dagen, men passade på att varna för Nico Rosberg i Williams inför säsongen. Och det ser ut att vara en varning på sin plats, Nico på 4e bästa tid idag. Det lovar gott inför loppen framöver, dessvärre återfanns idag Nakajima nere på 11e tid först. Kul att se Vettel uppe på 7e plats, för dagen i en Red Bull efter att Coulthard vritit till nacken och vilade skriver blogf1. […]