The new team are bringing a vast floating hospitality unit to the principality as they continue to invest huge sums in marketing.

But Coulthard hopes their focus will be on the track at Monaco, where he hopes to upset Formula One’s established order.

He said: “I’m going there to do the best I can on a track that I know I have gone well at. That doesn’t mean I won’t go and screw it up and put it in a wall somewhere. But it won’t be because I am trying too hard or because I’m not trying enough.

“We are very open-minded about what we are going to get at Monaco. I know if we wish to take a step up it’s essential for us to get into the top eight in qualifying.

“If for whatever reason we see that the machine isn’t talking to the drivers we’ll be where we have been.

“But the goal has to be to use that opportunity to get in amongst them because it is a track that requires a bit of a different set-up and if you feel confident then you can really extract a little bit extra as a driver.”

Coulthard admits Red Bull face an uphill battle if they are to challenge the big-budget giants of Formula One.

Monaco historically closes the gap between teams, with its tight and twisty streets often prompting surprise results.

Coulthard feels he has a chance of mixing it with the top teams but believes his home city is not as much of a leveller as in previous eras.

“It comes down to the old thing that people talk about Monaco as being a drivers’ track – well you’ve got to drive every track,” he said.

“I think most important of all, with the electronics we have you don’t see the big difference between cars and drivers around Monaco as you would see in the past.

“You’d go to Monaco and have a really mixed up grid, I don’t think that’s going to be so much the case.

“If you don’t look at the barriers it’s just another race track. There is a line through the corners if you are really in a sweet spot you are right on that line. But we can’t accelerate any quicker, we’ve only got so much horsepower.

Coulthard will be the only British driver on track in the Monaco Grand Prix after Jenson Button’s BAR-Honda team were banned.

But he is far from jealous of his close friend, saying: “I’d love to go to the Monaco Grand Prix and hang out but I know how good it feels to be on the race track.

“Come Friday night he is going to be well fed up because no amount of fun off the track ever, ever replaces the feeling of driving a good lap in a grand prix car.”