Coulthard: ‘Time for Kimi to go’

Ex-Formula 1 driver David Coulthard has suggested that Kimi Raikkonen should retire from the sport at the end of the season.

The Finn has struggled since he re-joined Ferrari last season, as both his team-mates, Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel, have heavily outscored him.

Coulthard drove alongside Raikkonen for two seasons at McLaren, and insists that he is no longer improving.

He said: "I think it's time for change. I'm not anti-Kimi at all, but having lived through that experience myself, there's a point in your career where you just stop getting better.

"It happened to me in my career; I was never the best driver, but there was certainly a point at the end where you just lose the edge.

"Right now, if Kimi goes and wins the next race, we'll all be super-excited, because we need that. But Vettel's come in and immediately established himself.

"When he was there with [Fernando] Alonso, Alonso was better. The facts are that whether it's bad luck or something else, he hasn't delivered in the last couple of years at the level he did in his previous career."

Raikkonen won the world title in 2007.

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