Coulthard Unhappy with McLaren Reliability

David Coulthard claimed his McLaren-Mercedes team are "not good enough" after seeing his hopes of extending his Championship lead when his car failed in the early laps of Sunday's Malaysian Grand Prix.

Coulthard, who won the season-opening race in Australia, was in second place behind Spaniard Fernando Alonso when he parked his car, a development of last year's MP4-17 machine, at the side of the track on lap four.

"I am disappointed because in these sort of situations where, especially when the car is supposedly a year old, we should be able to get it home and get strong points," said Coulthard. "Time and time again we park the car and it is just not good enough.

"Lots of things can contribute to it but the benchmark is what Ferrari have in terms of reliability and we fall a long way short of that."

Coulthard made an electrifying start to move to second but braked early for the first corner and found himself in a battle with World Champion Michael Schumacher which resulted in the German hitting Jarno Trulli's Renault ahead.

"I saw it and I took a deliberately wide line to avoid it," Coulthard said.