Montoya questions McLaren's tactics

Although the McLaren driver spun on the warm-up lap, then behind the Safety Car early in the race before finally running wide across a kerb to end his afternoon, the Colombian's biggest disappointment was with Raikkonen and the team management.

He said he was pretty unimpressed with Raikkonen's aggression towards him on the opening lap of the race, when they nearly banged wheels at both the first corner and then the quick chicane out the back of the circuit.

"Yeah, the last race was the same," he said. "He threw the car at me and he did the same here. But it doesn't matter - we are racing. I am not going to sit down and cry about it."

Montoya also said he was baffled about why Raikkonen put in the fastest lap of the race on the final tour.

"It was Kimi being heroic on the last lap and putting the fastest lap in, because it was half a second quicker than any other lap he did in the race. So he was either slow or thinking about something else other than driving except on the last lap.

"If you think about it, how do you go half a second quicker on the last lap? What do you gain out of it? It is not going to be a circuit record because the circuit record is 1m24s for Michael (Schumacher), so what are you risking? Going off on the last corner? I don't know."

When asked why there appeared to be an increased level of tension between himself and Raikkonen compared to last year, Montoya said: "I think (because) I am in a good position. Last year I wasn't in a position to fight him so I don't think he felt threatened by me."

Montoya's frustrations also boiled over towards the team after the race, claiming he was 'shocked' that the team opted to change Raikkonen's damaged nose at the final Safety Car pitstop because Montoya was stacked up behind him.

"I was kind of shocked the team did that," he said. "When you are doing stacked pitstops and you can put both cars on the podium, they decide to change Kimi's nose.

"Yes, he did damage the endplate but the end result was that I ended up going up over a kerb, the car ended up shutting itself off and that cost us points. If they wouldn't have done that (changed Raikkonen's nose) then I wouldn't have been behind Ralf (Schumacher) at any point."

Montoya confirmed that he had spoken to team boss Ron Dennis about the matter after the race, but he still believed it was the wrong decision.

"Ron said that Kimi had the pace to win the race and it turns out that he didn't. So we ended up with him finishing second and me not finishing so for the constructors' (championship) that cost us at least six points."

Speaking about his own exit from the race, when he ran wide at the final corner across a kerb, Montoya said: "I went on the kerb and bringing the car back it just turned itself off. It was just flapping from side to side when it shut itself off.

"It seemed like the system reset itself and went off. When the systems all came back on, the car was in neutral but everything else was off.

"It is a shame because the car was good. Renault was a bit quicker than us, but not much. I think I was a little bit quicker than Kimi, so I think we would have been okay (without the spins). I think Fernando would have beaten us, but I think we had a good enough pace."