Trulli angry at Schumacher's behaviour

Trulli was left furious that he was blocked by Schumacher during his final qualifying run - which both slowed the Toyota driver down and caused his tyres to drop below their ideal operating temperature for the lap after.

That incident left Trulli upset - especially because he could not understand why Schumacher deliberately went out of his way to block him.

"Michael blocked me: I was starting my flying lap when he came out of the pits and hindered me by keeping me behind for the entire lap," said Trulli in Gazzetta dello Sport.  

"This resulted in the temperature of my Bridgestones dropping, and I found myself going for the fast lap on shot tyres.

"He did it on purpose, because he had certainly seen me in his mirrors. I would understand that if we were in the last moments of qualifying, but it wasn't so: he had all the time to let my by and go for a flyer himself. I really can't understand why he behaved like that."

The fact that drivers lose a lap's worth of fuel allocation in the final qualifying session if their lap is not within 110 percent of their best probably played a factor in Schumacher's actions - but even so Trulli has said he will not forget what happened.

"This time he'll pay dearly for it," he warned "No, I'm not saying I want to bump him out of a race, but sooner or later I will happen to see him behind me and I'll do my utmost to obstruct him.

"The FIA never acts when he's involved. You only need to look at the sector times to see what he did."

When asked whether he considered lodging an official complaint with the race stewards about Schumacher's behaviour, Trulli said: "What for? This is Italy, nothing would have happened. Can you imagine the stewards having the courage of going against Ferrari? He took pole position and we are all happy, aren't we?"