Schumi unhappy at McLaren 'team order' let-off.

Michael Schumacher has expressed his disappointment that no action was taken against McLaren for what he believed was a spot of result manipulation at the British Grand Prix two weeks ago.

The German, speaking in an interview with BBC radio, claimed that David Coulthard offered no resistance to team-mate - and McLaren's main championship challenger - Kimi Raikkonen as the Finn charged back through the field at Silverstone. Although he did not condemn what he saw as team tactics from McLaren, Schumacher admitted that he was unhappy that nothing had been said about it, particularly by the governing body.

"I am not concerned about team orders - it is totally right in these circumstances," he said, "but what I am complaining about is the completely different attitude when [Ferrari] do it.

Schumacher was booed by the Austrian crowd after he was allowed to pass team-mate Rubens Barrichello on the final lap at the A1-Ring, and suffered financially when Ferrari was found guilty of manipulating the result of the race.

"If the same would have happened with Ferrari, there would have been a big story about it, yet, because it was McLaren, nobody has talked about it," he explained, "I am totally surprised that there has been no speculation about how easily Kimi was able to overtake David.

"David was on a different strategy, but he let Kimi by very easily. Only then did he go at the speed he was able to and make things more difficult for all the other drivers behind him."

Raikkonen went on to finish second in the Silverstone race, narrowing the gap between himself and Schumacher's world championship lead. Both the Finn and team-mate Coulthard said that the decision to swap places was taken between themselves as they were running on different fuel loads after Coulthard's headrest had come loose early in the race, and this was backed up by team boss Ron Dennis.