Double Whammy for Red Bull

Klien retired at the first corner of the race after being tipped into a roll by Jacques Villeneuve, while Coulthard crashed out spectacularly later that lap after his car's front suspension was ripped off when he hit Fernando Alonso's errant front wing.

Coulthard said: "A double whammy and a bad day for Red Bull Racing. I now know that I hit the nose of a Renault, but at the time I didn't see anything until it was too late. I had just enough time to react, but not nearly enough to get out of the way, so it smashed the front corner of my car.

"I couldn't distinguish the shape of the debris and was going too fast to react to it. I was lucky not to have had a bigger accident really, debris on the track is very dangerous and as soon as a car hits something like a wing, then it's likely that you're going to get a puncture.

"Finishing like this is very frustrating, not only because it means no points in this race, but also means a bad start for the next one. I'm very disappointed for both Christian and myself."

Klien added: "It all happened so quickly, A Sauber and Williams were behind me, one of them hit my car on the first corner and I rolled mid-air. I came to land on four wheels and luckily nothing happened, but that was not a good feeling.

"It was not to be this weekend and sadly this was not my race. It's a shame as I think we had a pretty good strategy set up for the race."