DC hopeful of new DTM dealposted in DTM02 | 12 | 2010

JUST DAYS after Bathgate's Paul di Resta clinched the DTM Championship, fellow Scot and 13-times F1 grands prix winner David Coulthard is hopeful of contesting the series again next year.

The Twynholm-born racer, who won his first points of the season when he finished eighth in the season finale in Shanghai, is happy with the progress he made through his debut season on the Mercedes.

"The important thing for me - and I keep saying this - is that there's been plenty of potential as the year has gone on," the 39-year-old said. "If I think back to the first race at Hockenheim, at that point I was thinking 'what am I doing here?' It moved on very quickly from a bit of testing for fun to me ending up on the grid for the first race!

"But I've felt more at home as the season has gone on. I think we've built a good platform for the future, so it's worth sticking around again for a second year.

"Hopefully when we're all back home from Shanghai we can get things sorted in the next couple of weeks." And the Scot (pictured above with Mercedes motorsport boss Norbert Haug in Shanghai) emphasised he is in no hurry to be promoted to a top-spec car at the expense of a young up-and-coming racer.

"I've always made it very clear that I've had my career in Formula 1, and this is just something for me to enjoy," he continued. "I'm not going to sit here and demand a new car just because of my past achievements. Obviously I take this seriously and I'd love to be in a winning car, but there are drivers out there at the moment that would me far more deserving of it than me."

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Jim McGill