Albers hits out at Super Aguri drivers

The safety car came out on the first lap of the race when Super Aguri's rookie driver Ide collided with Albers' car.

The Dutchman's car, in front of Ide, rolled five times before coming to rest upside down in the gravel. Albers climbed out unhurt while Ide pitted and then retired two laps later.

Albers was angry at Ide and accused both him and teammate Takuma Sato of being too aggressive at the start of the races.

"For me, this was really a bad end to the weekend," said Albers. "During the race, I felt I had a reasonable start that ended up being wasted by an unnecessary race incident.

"With all due respect to the Super Aguri drivers, they are being much too aggressive in trying to jump ahead of us at the start so that they can hold us up during the race, as they've done in the past.

"They are taking too many risks, and we saw today how dangerous this can be. I don't understand this tactic, because I would have conceded the position to (Ide) had he been in a position to take it. I had a lot of fuel on board and driving to a certain strategy, so I wasn't trying to hold anyone up.

"But instead, he just pushed me off the road from behind. It's too bad, because the car is severely damaged. The team worked very hard to give me a good car this weekend, and they deserved a better result than this."