David Coulthard vs Kimi Räikkönen, 2004
Teammates at McLaren — the same car, so these numbers compare the drivers rather than the machinery. Compare full careers →
In the 2004 season, David Coulthard and Kimi Räikkönen competed as teammates at McLaren across 18 races. Räikkönen outqualified Coulthard 12 times and finished ahead of him 7 times, while Coulthard managed to finish ahead only 2 times. Räikkönen scored 45 championship points and won 1 Grand Prix, whereas Coulthard scored 24 points and did not achieve any wins, with both drivers classified in 9 races for comparison.
Summarised by gpt-4o-mini from the figures below.6–12Qualifyingof 18 compared
2–7Race finishesof 9 compared
Qualifying is compared on the grid they actually started from. A race counts only where both were classified — one of them retiring leaves nothing to compare, so it is not scored to the other.
2004 season
1818
2445
01
04
P4P1
9.38.2
7.75.1
48