Dennis wrongly accuses DC of 'brain fade'.

McLaren boss Ron Dennis has been forced to eat his words after wrongly accusing David Coulthard of stalling before the parade lap got under way.

Dennis said: "Based on an initial analysis we felt that David was responsible for stalling on the dummy grid, but closer scrutiny confirmed that a glitch in the software was at fault. His recovery from this and a first-corner incident gave him two well-deserved points."

Earlier Dennis had told reporters that DC had messed up the start. He said: "I am afraid to say that David had a bit of a brain fade on his part."

When told of his bosses comments DC responded angrily by suggesting it wasn't him that had had brain fade. The Scot said: "I think Ron has suffered a brain fade. He has not spoken to me or to my engineers yet. I was putting the system on in the way we practised, though I did not put it on at full power because I had Michael (Schumacher) in front of me."

"It had not happened in practice and we will have to look at what caused the problem. Hopefully it is just a case of the boffins changing a few numbers. The car just stalled and we're scratching our heads because it should not have happened."