DC defends Dennis
August 24th 2007 04:14
Coulthard and Dennis after the Scot won the 2000 Monaco GP
The current Red Bull Racing driver echoed Mika Hakkinen’s sentiments about the ordeal, saying “that there was never any question of anything being on the car that hadn’t been checked off by the FIA if it was a grey area”.
Speaking at today’s press conference in Turkey, the Scot said that if Dennis “felt that if the car was found to be operating with something that could be interpreted in a different way, then the team would be penalised, so it always had to be exactly as the rules stated, or written to the FIA and qualified that it could be accepted”.
“That was my experience, of course, during my nine seasons racing there for McLaren,” Coulthard said.
“I have no doubt that when he makes his emotional statements that he absolutely believes in what he’s saying and it’s sincere,” he said
”So I equally think that it’s impossible for any one individual within a large organisation to know absolutely every detail of what goes on, because you just can’t,” said Coulthard, who won 12 races for McLaren-Mercedes.
“You can’t know what the lay-up is inside a front wing unless you’re the guy in the carbon shop laying up the wing, or you cannot know the internals of the piston or something unless you’re at Ilmor in the build shop,” he said.
“But if you set rules, how you want to operate as a company, then you have to trust in the others around you to be professional to do that,” he said.
“I think that emotion is because there’s a passion and belief that he does things in a sporting way,” Coulthard added, “In other things that he does - whether that’s to everyone’s flavour and taste or not is down to personal opinion.”
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