David Coulthard refused to follow teammate Mark Webber’s lead in Bahrain by angrily condemning Red Bull’s lack of reliability in 2007.
Australian Webber did not mince his words when speaking to reporters after the Bahrain GP, where a stuck fuel flap and a broken gearbox ruined his day.
Veteran Coulthard, however, had been even more badly blighted at the desert surrounds of Sakhir, where two technical defects paused his RB3 single seater prior to the race.
Then, on Sunday, a masterly drive from the back of the grid to as high as seventh went begging when his driveshaft broke.
“I’m disappointed obviously but we have to go and look at the positives,” Coulthard insisted.
The Scot said he took heart in Red Bull’s progress since winter testing, after the Milton-Keynes built car looked genuinely a match for struggling champions Renault in Bahrain.
He explained: “As quickly as they have gone backwards we have gone forwards.”
Coulthard said Red Bull’s goal for the next few races is to finally score some points and become the fourth force on the grid, after proving quicker than big outfits like Toyota and Honda so far this year.
“We have to be realistic and as painful as it is parking the car, I’d rather park the car having had a good race rather than what we had last year,” he said.
