McLaren star David Coulthard has spoken out over WilliamsF1 rival Juan Pablo Montoya following the incident in yesterday's Hungarian GP in which Kimi Raikkonen and the Colombian 'clashed'.

For the second race in succession the Colombian and the Finn went head-to-head. Montoya passed the McLaren star but the Finn fought back and retook his position whilst Montoya got it wrong and ended up going off necessitating a pit-stop that cost him a points finish.

Coulthard, who in the past has proved to be one of the sport's truly gritty fighters and one of the few men capable of worrying Michael Schumacher, is incensed at Montoya's attitude.

"There's all this hype about Montoya," Coulthard told reporters following yesterday's race. "The guy is very quick there's no question and I think his qualifying earlier in the year showed that.

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

"Kimi pulled a fantastic manoeuvre on him and what did Montoya do?" asked Coulthard, who despite starting from 10th on the grid finished a fine fifth. "Throw himself off the circuit because he's got this inability to just accept that he's been passed."

"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."

We're sure that Montoya won't waste too much time before issuing a response.

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