JV, Montoya fail to agree over Suzuka incident.

Juan Pablo Montoya and Jacques Villeneuve will have to agree to disagree over the incident which put the Colombian out of the Japanese Grand Prix after neither was keen to accept blame for the incident when quizzed ahead of this final race of the season this weekend in China.

With Montoya and Villeneuve sitting side-by-side in the Thursday press conference in Shanghai ahead of the final race of the season, the incident - which put Montoya out of the race at the end of lap one and would see Villeneuve given a 25 second penalty after the race had finished - was bound to come up, and when it did, JV denied that he had been at fault.

"I was a bit surprised when I saw Juan Pablo in the wall," he said. "When you're racing and you go through a corner, you only leave room if the guy's next to you. If the person is still behind you just take your line and you expect the other person to lift, because he hasn't won the corner. That's all. I was concentrating on the straight line and once I got on the straight, I looked in the mirrors to see where he was and I saw him in the wall so I was a bit surprised. I guess Juan Pablo judged that he would be next to me by the time we got to the exit..."

Villeneuve added that he was disappointed with the decision taken by the stewards to find him at fault for the incident.

"I spent all my career always accepting blame when I've done something wrong," he said, "and this time I won't accept blame and I find it very, very disappointing because the next step is when someone tries to overtake you, you just lift in the middle of the straight line and let him by. I find that a little bit dangerous, mostly when you see that some drivers will put another one on the grass in the middle of a straight-line and there's no punishment for that. So I find that a little bit difficult to accept."

However Montoya admitted he felt the penalty handed out to the Sauber man didn't go far enough.

"The rules are so inconsistent with everybody that it's very hard to judge," he said. "In a way he got a penalty, but in a way he didn't. He got a 25 second penalty when he finished twelfth. What does that matter? It doesn't change anything. It's kind of ridiculous that you give a penalty to someone who finished twelfth which is probably going to drop him a place. Wow, 13th.

"I think I was side-by-side with Jacques. When I came out of the chicane, he came across the track to block me. I went the other way, when I came down the circuit I was beside him. It doesn't matter. It happens. He said he didn't see me and when he looked it was too late but...I tried not to hit wheels. If you touch wheels you would probably end up in the grandstand or something and I would just rather finish one car in the wall than one in the grandstand."