F1 drivers share DC's safety concerns

According to David Coulthard there are a lot of F1 drivers who don't dare to express their safety concerns as they fear to be considered as soft. Earlier this month, Coulthard already spoke about the wet weather safety concerns he has.

Coulthard fears for more accidents during wet weather races without traction control. Other drivers don't seem to share these concerns with Coulthard as they don't seem to make a fuss about the topic. However, the Scot denies that he's more concerned than the other drivers: "I'm not the biggest critic, I'm just prepared to express my opinion publicly.

"All of the drivers when we have the drivers' meetings, and even those who are not members of the GPDA when we have the meetings with Charlie Whiting, express the same concerns," he said in Jerez.

"There is an element of not wanting to get involved publicly, an element of not wanting to talk about safety because racing drivers are meant to be brave and pushing the limits and all that sort of thing. So it doesn't always sit comfortably with some."

Coulthard has no problem with the traction control ban, but he only wants to point out the potential dangers this might present. "I've got no problem with not having traction control, engine braking and all of those things, I've raced when a lot of these guys that I'm racing against now were at kindergarten, and I was racing cars without those toys," DC said.

Coulthard's fear for more crashes due to the traction control ban are shared by team mate Mark Webber. The Aussie was quoted by newspaper 'The Herald Sun': "No question about it, there will be more crashes. We've seen it in testing. There are more guys going off, there are more red flags, and that is going to happen in races. That is a 100 percent certainty.

"You can say that we're paid lots of cash, but if you are talking about actually you can't see where you are going - that's not about who's paid what. It's just not safe enough. But on the bottom of that I don't want to see 'Webber is a pussy with safety'. I like taking risks, and I'm up for the challenge but we need to always find a balance. And we will learn."