Coulthard enjoys 62nd podium finish

David Coulthard surprised a few when the Red Bull driver finished in third position in Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix, especially since he was still without any championship points thus far. Coulthard was especially delighted to get a podium for his team.

"The start was pretty hairy with all the cars bunched up round Turn 1 and Turn 2, but my goal was to get to the finish and get points, so to get my 62nd podium is a great result," said Coulthard. "This adds to the points Mark has already scored this season and helps us build our total in the Championship.

"I'm delighted to get a podium for the team, they've had a lot of work on at the previous races and back at base. You can expect some unusual results here, so we fuelled it long; but we expected the incidents would occur on track, not in the pit lane. But, nonetheless, the strategy worked well and all credit to the engineers, mechanics and everyone back at Red Bull for all their hard work."

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David & Karen on ITV's "Mr and Mrs" show

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French Grand Prix

1st Free Practice

1 F. Massa 1:15.306 22

2 L. Hamilton 1:16.002 22

3 H. Kovalainen 1:16.055 20

4 K. Räikkönen 1:16.073 21

5 R. Kubica 1:16.377 19

6 F. Alonso 1:16.400 23

7 J. Trulli 1:16.758 32

8 S. Vettel 1:16.838 27

9 N. Heidfeld 1:16.870 21

10 T. Glock 1:16.886 31

11 N. Piquet jr. 1:17.063 31

12 D. Coulthard 1:17.234 21

13 M. Webber 1:17.269 22

14 N. Rosberg 1:17.394 30

15 R. Barrichello 1:17.491 25

16 S. Bourdais 1:17.683 27

17 K. Nakajima 1:17.696 25

18 J. Button 1:17.928 21

19 G. Fisichella 1:18.072 27

20 A. Sutil 1:18.673 13

French Grand Prix

2nd Free Practice

1 F. Alonso 1:15.778 37

2 F. Massa 1:15.854 24

3 K. Räikkönen 1:15.999 42

4 L. Hamilton 1:16.232 28

5 S. Vettel 1:16.298 42

6 R. Kubica 1:16.317 35

7 H. Kovalainen 1:16.340 36

8 N. Heidfeld 1:16.458 43

9 N. Piquet jr. 1:16.543 39

10 D. Coulthard 1:16.572 36

11 N. Rosberg 1:16.682 42

12 J. Trulli 1:16.743 43

13 S. Bourdais 1:16.758 42

14 K. Nakajima 1:17.002 32

15 T. Glock 1:17.092 39

16 M. Webber 1:17.106 38

17 J. Button 1:17.244 37

18 G. Fisichella 1:17.394 42

19 R. Barrichello 1:17.591 27

20 A. Sutil 1:17.868 33

French Grand Prix

3rd Free Practice

1 N. Piquet jr. 1:15.750 19

2 M. Webber 1:15.759 14

3 S. Vettel 1:15.827 21

4 N. Rosberg 1:15.974 17

5 K. Räikkönen 1:16.003 18

6 J. Trulli 1:16.147 20

7 L. Hamilton 1:16.182 16

8 S. Bourdais 1:16.235 18

9 F. Massa 1:16.256 17

10 D. Coulthard 1:16.282 18

11 T. Glock 1:16.344 20

12 F. Alonso 1:16.437 20

13 H. Kovalainen 1:16.545 16

14 R. Kubica 1:16.617 20

15 K. Nakajima 1:16.644 16

16 J. Button 1:16.651 20

17 R. Barrichello 1:16.658 17

18 N. Heidfeld 1:16.687 19

19 G. Fisichella 1:17.365 23

20 A. Sutil 1:17.612 21

French Grand Prix

Qualifying

1 K. Räikkönen 1:16.449

2 F. Massa 1:16.490

3 L. Hamilton 1:16.693

4 F. Alonso 1:16.840

5 J. Trulli 1:16.840

6 H. Kovalainen 1:16.944

7 R. Kubica 1:17.037

8 M. Webber 1:17.233

9 D. Coulthard 1:17.426

10 T. Glock 1:17.596

11 N. Piquet jr. 1:15.770

12 N. Heidfeld 1:15.786

13 S. Vettel 1:15.816

14 S. Bourdais 1:16.045

15 N. Rosberg 1:16.235

16 K. Nakajima 1:16.243

17 J. Button 1:16.306

18 R. Barrichello 1:16.330

19 G. Fisichella 1:16.971

20 A. Sutil 1:17.053

Red Bull happy with grid positions

Red Bull Racing is happy with its qualifying result after Mark Webber and David Coulthard went eighth and ninth fastest and will start seventh and eighth when Hamilton serves his ten place penalty.

"I'm pretty happy with that," said Webber. "Of course you always want a little bit more, but it could also have been worse for us, so it's okay. I had Jarno (Trulli) spinning in front of me on my first flying lap in Q3, so it all rested on my final one - but we got there. We've got both cars in the top ten, which is what want we wanted. Let's see what we can do from there tomorrow."

"It's been very close with Renault and also our sister team this weekend, both have been looking very quick, but in the end we have both our cars in the top ten," said Coulthard. "I have a reasonable fuel load, so I'm pretty happy with my performance today."

Team principal Christian Horner added, "A good recovery after a difficult Friday. Both drivers are much happier with the car today. It was a strong performance from both sides of the garage to qualify for Q3 and, lining up in what will become seventh and eighth tomorrow with Lewis' penalty, we think we're reasonably placed. We're looking forward to tomorrow's race."

Karen