Red Bull team chief Christian Horner has dropped a strong hint that David Coulthard could be racing with the Formula One team again next year.

"I'm very happy with the job that he's doing and he and I get along very well," he told reporters after the 35-year-old Scot handed Red Bull their first podium finish with third place in Monaco on Sunday.

"If a relationship is working and it's right, then why stop it?," he said.

Horner described Coulthard, winner 13 times in his 201 races, as a team player whose driving skills were still sharp.

"He enjoys driving for us, he can see the team is getting stronger and stronger with every week and he knows what's coming," he said.

Coulthard's team-mate is Christian Klien but Red Bull have two teams after buying Minardi and renaming it Toro Rosso.

Red Bull, owned by Austrian energy drink billionaire Dietrich Mateschitz, rescued Coulthard's career at the end of 2004 when they signed him after he became surplus to requirements at McLaren.