3His 16-year-old son Dayton has started kart racing and has followed in his father’s footsteps by wearing a saltire helmet. The former Formula 1 driver wore a saltire design helmet throughout his career to show his pride in his Scottish roots.Formula One driver David Coulthard takes off his helmet – with Michael Schumacher in attendanceCredit: […]
3His 16-year-old son Dayton has started kart racing and has followed in his father’s footsteps by wearing a saltire helmet.
The former Formula 1 driver wore a saltire design helmet throughout his career to show his pride in his Scottish roots.
The former Formula 1 driver wore a saltire design helmet throughout his career to show his pride in his Scottish roots.
The former Formula 1 driver wore a saltire design helmet throughout his career to show his pride in his Scottish roots.He retired from racing in 2008 and now lives in Monaco.Coulthard was speaking to racing legend Sir Jackie Stewart‘s grandson Lucas on his golfing YouTube channel.The Scot started wearing the blue and white striped helmet as an 11-year-old when he began racing in karting.3
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3“He wanted the McLaren look to be the same for both drivers.”But he was then not understanding the importance of the personal helmet.”Keep up to date with ALL the latest news and transfers at the Scottish Sun football pageCoulthard, who won 13 Grand Prix races during a glittering career and now works as a pundit on F1 television coverage, launched a Scotch whisky in 2018 called Saltire.DAVID Coulthard has revealed he once turned down an offer of million to ditch the Scotland flag from his racing helmet.
Coulthard, originally of Twynholm, Kirkcudbrightshire, said he immediately rejected the offer as his own helmet was too personal to change.Dennis wanted him and fellow driver Mika Hakkinen to wear a McLaren design and offered them both a seven-figure sum to buy the rights to their helmets.”I think Ron was going through a phase where he couldn’t really understand why we cared that much about it and he thought million would be enough to make us change our minds.He said: “There was a time when Ron Dennis offered both Mika and I individually million on top of our contract to basically own the rights to the helmet design.
