The Young Drivers: No.1 - David Coulthard
In the rundown to the 2008 Autosport Awards, autosport.com will count down the top ten McLaren Autosport BRDC Award winners, reliving the success of their winning year and looking at what they've gone on to achieve since
Where were they then?
The McLaren Autosport BRDC Award had not evolved into the competition it is today when it was first run in 1989. Winner David Coulthard didn't have to go head-to-head with his rivals during evaluation tests and was instead selected for his dominance of both the P&O Ferries and Dunlop/Autosport Formula Ford 1600 championships, but that year did set the two must important parts of the template. The Scot was a seriously talented young driver and, by winning the award, he was destined to have a Formula One test for McLaren.
He went on to become the first award winner to taste victory in a grand prix, taking a total of 13 wins in an F1 career that only came to an end - after 246 starts - in last month's Brazilian Grand Prix.
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