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David Coulthard

Profession : Driver

Birth : March 27, 1971

My parents were a formidable team and worked flat-out all the time. I learnt so much from them about business and life.

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My grandfather took part in the Tulip Rally in an old Austin Sheerline and even competed in the Monte Carlo Rally. My father was the Scottish karting champion.

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In my late teens I progressed from karting into single-seater racing, starting with Formula Ford in 1989. I did well and won the Autosport magazine Young Driver of the Year award, which came with a test drive in a McLaren F1 car.

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I stopped eating fattening food and, before I knew what had happened, I was bulimic.

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I like the Amanpuri in Phuket and have been there several times. It's made up of individual Thai-style bungalows with their own private beach. There's a very laid-back atmosphere; the service and the food are wonderful too.

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I've become much more economical with my packing as I've got older. I know very well how hotel laundries work and I pack accordingly.

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I avoid cheap holidays. You get what you pay for and this is especially true when it comes to holidays. I'd sacrifice other things to ensure I had a good time on holiday.

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Historically, when you have a big change in regulations, there's one team that gets it right, and the others have to then spend the next couple years catching up.

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The drivers just want fast, challenging, wheel to wheel racing. They really are not emotionally attached to anything else in the regulations.

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I have great admiration for a number of drivers.

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Having lived my life at 200 miles an hour, I'm used to making decisions at high speed and thinking quickly on my feet. That has been a real asset to me in business.

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I find it fascinating how much I learned in F1 and did not realise it.

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There are lots of similarities between sport and business. And in both if you do well people will reward you for it.

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I miss my sister every day. Knowing that I will never engage with her again really hurts. People often ask what I miss most about Scotland and it's her.

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I am quite a cautious driver and my wife does most of the driving.

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You have to drive at a speed that won't affect your decision-making ability and that may be well below the limit.

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Sometimes people ask you as a Formula 1 driver whether your mind wanders to other things. Well, when you're in the car in real moments of intensity, you don't think about anything else.

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The story of Lewis Hamilton the racing driver is so much more than what happens on the track - you get an insight into what's going on in his life day to day. It's such a contrast with someone like Fernando Alonso, for example, about whom we know almost nothing apart from his sporting record. Hamilton lays himself bare.

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I was teammates with Mika Hakkinen for seven years, and he was an incredibly fast and talented driver. He was very fair, and that's something that stands out.

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If you enter a sport, you'd rather reflect on competing against people who are considered the best in history, rather than having what could be considered a weak season and winning the championship.

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