Know When You're Beaten, Coulthard Tells Montoya

Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya needs to bury his pride and accept that other drivers are sometimes going to get the better of him, riled Formula One rival David Coulthard said on Sunday.

"There's all this hype about Montoya... the guy is very quick there's no question and I think his qualifying earlier in the year showed that," McLaren's Coulthard said of the Williams driver at the Hungarian Grand Prix.

"But whenever it comes to wheel to wheel racing, there's an incident. With me, we crashed and both lost points in Nurburgring, hence me being sensitive to it."

Montoya finished 11th, after starting fourth on the grid, as he made contact with Jenson Button's Renault at the start and then tracked across the grass and gravel runoff as Coulthard's Finnish teammate Kimi Raikkonen tried to go past.

As Montoya went off, Italian Jarno Trulli and Coulthard slipped past after Raikkonen.

"Kimi pulled a fantastic manoeuvre on him and what did Montoya do? Throw himself off the circuit because he's got this inability to just accept that he's been passed," said Coulthard, who finished fifth.

"What he'd rather do is either go off or take both cars off and that to him seems to be okay, that's acceptable because you're not giving up your place.

"Sometimes you've got to just give it up."

Montoya has been on pole six times this season but has yet to win a race in 2002 after triumphing at Monza in Italy in his debut season last year.

The Colombian, who has acquired quite a reputation for his overtaking skills, also started the year suffering costly tangles with Ferrari's World Champion Michael Schumacher in Malaysia and Brazil.

He also collided with Schumacher in Austria last year when the German tried to overtake him for the lead. Sunday's race was won by Brazilian Rubens Barrichello, who secured a fourth successive Formula One constructors' title for Ferrari.

Teammate Michael Schumacher, who is already assured of a record-equalling fifth World Championship, was second ahead of his brother Ralf in the Williams.