Top 10: A Good Thing If Coulthard Switches to NASCAR
Headed for the Canadian Grand Prix, F1 driver David Coulthard recently visited the garage in Dover prior to the NASCAR race as part of a promotional tour for Red Bull. Naturally, speculation emerged about the chances of the Scotsman giving it a go in NASCAR. Here follows ten good reasons for making the switch.
10. With an accent like that, Couthard could help promote NASCAR’s diversity movement. 9. Fellow Scotsman Jimmy Clark, who drove at Rockingham (N.C.) in 1967, would be smiling if Coulthard made the switch. And besides, the Sprint Cup could use two Scotsmen in case stuff happens like Dario Franchitti getting sidelined by an ankle injury. (Don’t believe the rumors Dario won’t be back.)
8. Every major racing series needs at least one square-jawed driver.
7. A driver like European-based Coulthard could really begin to change perceptions. In 20 years, NASCAR will finally be as mainstream as baseball in America, but it will still trail the NBA and all its foreign players outside the U.S.
6. Now that reunification has occurred, NASCAR needs to get the former F-1 guys before the IRL does.
5. It would be a reminder of Gerhard Berger’s send-ups of the media about switching to NASCAR or the IRL at the height of his F1 career.
4. Perhaps people would begin to realize — at long last — that the southern drawl is actually only a slight modification of the Scotch or Irish accents.
3. Juan Pablo Montoya could relive his days of driving into F1 drivers.
2. If Coulthard makes the switch work, could a bored, retired guy like Michael Schumacher be far behind?
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Jonathan Ingram can be reached at jonathan@jingrambooks.com.
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