Coulthard: "Come on guys, this is unacceptable"
David Coulthard has some frank opinions on the driving standards that some of the more illustrious grand prix drivers are currently being exposed to. He's worried that the next generation of stars is being badly influenced too...
There were some wonderful examples of classy, mature driving during the Belgian Grand Prix.
Look at Kimi Raikkonen and Michael Schumacher at Eau Rouge, and Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber at the chicane. They were fighting hard, making good decisions and knew when they had to give it up.
Unfortunately, the same couldn't be said about everyone racing at Spa last weekend.
Romain Grosjean didn't need to do what he did at the start of the race. He wasn't avoiding an incident and he just made too big a swerve to the inside. I know from having done 246 grands prix - and not having crashed at the start in many of them - that you have to be slow and deliberate in any change of direction because you can't be absolutely sure where all the cars are.
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