Fabian "Fabs" Coulthard (born 28 July 1982) is a New Zealand professional race car driver, currently competing in the Repco Supercars Championship, who will drive as an endurance co-driver for

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with

Walkinshaw Andretti United Walkinshaw Andretti United is an Australian motor racing team based in the Melbourne suburb of Clayton, Victoria, Clayton. The team, initially branded as the Holden Racing Team, used to field Holden Commodores in the Supercars Championship befo ...

. Fabian is a

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of former

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driver

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Early career

Coulthard was born in

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, England but raised in

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. He started his career in karts before moving into

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. He competed in the

support races at the

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, winning the Alan Jones Trophy with two wins and a second place in the three races. Coulthard also won the 2001/2002

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. In the United Kingdom, Coulthard competed in

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, where he was teammates with future

world champion

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. With his budget exhausted, Coulthard returned to Australia to race in the

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, finishing third and best rookie in

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and winning the title in

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Supercars Championship

In 2006 Coulthard signed to drive with

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, he shared a car with Alan Gurr and Steve Ellery. Coulthard returned to drive the older model VZ Commodore for the same team in 2007, before stepping out after Bathurst to concentrate on his 2008 plans.

Paul Cruickshank Racing

Coulthard enjoyed a breakout season in

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driving for

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. Driving a

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, Coulthard finished in the top ten on six separate occasions, including fifth place on home soil in Hamilton, New Zealand and finishing the season in a respectable 13th in the championship. In

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he returned with PCR, driving a brand new

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having another consistent year behind the wheel of the Falcon. At

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Coulthard broke through for his first podium result in V8 Supercars, finishing third at the

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and finished the season in another consistent 16th in the championship.

Walkinshaw Racing

Holden VE Commodore of Fabian Coulthard 2011

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he joined

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, the same operation as the famous Holden Racing Team. On the first lap of the

2010 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 The 2010 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 was a motor race for V8 Supercars. The race, which was held on Sunday, 10 October 2010 at the Mount Panorama Circuit just outside Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia was Race 18 of the 2010 V8 Superca ...

, his left-rear tyre blew after earlier contact, spun at 280 km/h through The Chase and rolled six times in the sand-trap before coming to a stop. Coulthard has failed to replicate his 2008/2009 speed with only three respectable results being a seventh in race 5 of the championship, at the 2010 Clipsal 500 an eighth at 2010 Falken Tasmania Challenge and another 5th at the Sydney Telstra 500. In

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, Coulthard continued racing with

, driving the No. 61 Bundaberg Racing Team VE Commodore.

Brad Jones Racing

In 2012, he left Walkinshaw Racing and moved to

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. Coulthard won his first V8 Supercars race at the Symmons Plains event in 2013, he went on to win a further two races and scored nine podium finishes that year. He finished the year in sixth Place. 2014 was not quite as successful for Coulthard, with only one race win and five podiums on the way to 8th in the Championship. In 2015, Coulthard opened the year strong, with a podium in the first race at the Clipsal 500 and a win in the second. He went on to score another seven podiums in the year, placing seventh in the championship.

DJR Team Penske

Coulthard left Brad Jones Racing at the end of the 2015 season to sign with

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, returning to a two-car squad after running only a single car in 2015. He went on to place 12th in the championship. In 2017 he won 4 races en route to a career best 3rd in the championship File:Ford Falcon FG X of Fabian Coulthard (2017).JPG, Coulthard's Shell V Power Racing Ford Falcon FG X at the

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File:Ford Falcon FG X of Fabian Coulthard (Adelaide Parklands Circuit, 2018).jpg, The Ford Falcon FG X of Fabian Coulthard at the

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of Fabian Coulthard at the 2019 Adelaide 500

Career results

Career summary

Complete Bathurst 1000 results

Supercars Championship results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

Complete Porsche Supercup results