Jacques refutes Liuzzi 'push' claim.

Jacques Villeneuve insists that it wasn't his fault that Tonio Liuzzi had a huge accident while trying to find his way past the BMW driver in the Australian Grand Prix on Sunday.

Both men were called to see the stewards but, after lengthy debate, the officials announced that they did not have enough evidence to make a judgement against the Canadian.

Villeneuve made a mistake and ran wide into turn one, which cost him momentum in the second part of the corner. That allowed Liuzzi to go round the outside but, as he drew alongside Jacques, who claims not to have seen him, the Canadian continued moving onto the racing line. Liuzzi was left with nowhere to go, and lost control when he found himself edged onto the grass. An angry Villeneuve, however, was unrepentant.

"When you're next to someone on the outside, you have to be ahead, because obviously I'm going left as I'm turning left," he told Crash.net, "So that's all. I saw him at the last second, when he was already sideways on the grass, because I saw movement in the mirror. So what the hell was he doing there?

"When I'm on the outside of someone, and I'm not ahead, I lift, because normally I know I'm going to run out of road. That's the way it is. I don't understand what he was doing there."

Villeneuve eventually finished sixth. He ran a one-stop strategy from 19th after a planned engine change gave him a ten-place penalty. He might have done even better, but he made his pit-stop just before Michael Schumacher's accident created a yellow that allowed everyone else to make a 'free' stop. Ironically, the Canadian actually had enough fuel to have done one more lap, and thus would also have been able to benefit.

"The second safety car screwed me and, for some reason, we really have a hard time to warm up our tyres - more than other teams - so we have to figure something out," he complained, "It was very frustrating. Everything was just at the wrong time there, but that's life.

"My car was running well with a heavy tank, so I was quite happy. It's good to have two cars in the points, it builds us up a bit in the championship, so it was a good day for the team."