After a near two year absence, David Coulthard has decided to resume his career in motor racing. Coulthard will make his debut in the German DTM touring car series with the Mercedes Team at the April 25th opening race in Hockenheim, Germany.

“I always said I wasn’t hanging up my helmet for good because I didn’t believe I was over racing,” Coulthard told the BBC. “I just knew my time as an F1 driver had reached its natural conclusion.”

“I didn’t actively look to race anything through 2009 but at the final race of the DTM season I really got the buzz and the tingle again for the competition.”

“There’s a reasonable level of technology involved in the cars, it’s a professionally run championship and in Mercedes there’s a company I worked with for seven years in my time at McLaren.”

At this weekend’s F1 Malaysian Grand Prix, Coulthard revealed that he had been approached about a return to the sport last season but did not follow up.

“I had a call from one of the teams which I never returned because people in F1 knew I wasn’t looking to make a return in F1,” said Coulthard.