Is F1 David’s new girl a ‘wife’ in the fast lane?

AS A Formula One driver for 15 seasons, his career was built on speed. And it appears David Coulthard has applied the same talent to his love life.

The retired Scottish racing star, 51, has sparked engagement rumours after his girlfriend, Sigrid Silversand, was spotted wearing a huge sparkler on her ring finger just months after this newspaper revealed he had split from his wife, Karen Minier.

Swedish model Silversand, who’s in her mid-20s, was seen wearing the rock as the couple went shopping in London. The pair were first pictured together in January walking hand-in-hand and sharing several kisses in the capital.

In the same month, Amanda Holden also shared a picture of herself and her husband, Chris Hughes, with the pair as they enjoyed a drink in celebration of their elder daughter’s birthday.

‘Celebrating Lexi’s 16th birthday with her godfather, David Coulthard, and his girlfriend, Sigrid, and my lub,’ she wrote on Instagram. Coulthard was best man at Hughes’s wedding to the Britain’s Got Talent judge.

The former sportsman-turnedcommentator had not been pictured wearing his wedding ring since January last year.

He married Belgian TV presenter Minier, 49, in Monaco in 2013. They met in 2005 when she was covering the Grand Prix for the French TV channel, TF1, and they had a son, Dayton, in 2008.

At the time, Coulthard described the birth as ‘the start of a fantastic period’ in his life and said ‘winning 13 races seems completely insignificant in comparison’.

He also once hailed his wife a

‘fantastic kisser’, joking: ‘I did research to confirm she’s the best’.

Silversand does not post often about her private life online, but has previously spoken openly about being single.

In 2017, she shared a snap of her modelling wedding gowns and wrote: ‘Just because you are single af [as f***] does not mean you can’t have a s*** ton of fake weddings.’

Coulthard was previously engaged to American model Heidi Wichlinski and had a relationship with Brazilian model Simone Abdelnour.

A spokesman for Coulthard was keen to play down talk of an engagement.