Trulli furious after Monteiro clash.

Jarno Trulli crashed out of the Belgian Grand Prix after Tiago Monteiro slowed suddenly in front of him, although the incident was completely missed by the television cameras.

Trulli hit the back of the Jordan before spearing into the tyre wall, and was furious with the Portuguese driver, especially when he continued to lap without further problems. It's the third time this year that Monteiro has been involved in an incident with a high-profile driver and has still finished the race. In Belgium, the Jordan driver went on to finish eighth and score a championship point.

"I don't know what happened," Trulli told Crash.net, "But he told me by mistake that he hit his pit limiter button, so he slowed his car to 80kph in the middle of the corner! I hit him straight in the back, I couldn't do anything."

Curiously, when the Jordan team presented its data to the stewards, the story had become one of a misfire rather than finger trouble from the driver. It was accepted that Monteiro was not at fault, and no penalty was applied.

Trulli's race had already been ruined by a tyre decision under the safety car. While nearly everyone else who made the mistake of going to dries immediately switched back, he stayed out for one more lap, which cost a lot of track time.

"Basically, I had asked several times to keep intermediate tyres but, after Fisichella's shunt, the team still decided to go on slicks. It was wrong," the Italian said, "I kept saying I couldn't follow the safety car, but they made me do two laps behind the safety car, and then I came in, because it wasn't possible to drive. I was 50 seconds off from the last car by then. Okay, I climbed back up to eighth or ninth, but then I had this accident. It's very bad luck, that's all I can say."