Juan Pablo Montoya has admitted that his overriding feeling following last Sunday's collision with Michael Schumacher in Monaco, was sadness.

The Colombian is never reticent when it comes to letting people know how he feels, therefore his attitude following last Sunday's race had many confused.

"I think it was really sad," said the WilliamsF1 driver today. "I actually felt bad to see Michael out of the race like that.

"If we were fighting for position and we hit each other and we were both off the track or one off the track, you can be pissed off about it," he continued. "I was a lap behind and that was as far forward as I was going to go because the third car was Rubens and he was probably 30 or 40 metres behind me, so, in 30 laps I wasn't going to get the lap back, was I? So I wasn't really bothered, I was going to push like always and that was it. I feel really bad because I wasn't interested in getting involved in an accident, especially behind the safety car."

Asked to explain the incident, from his point of view, Montoya said: "We were warming up the tyres, he went up the gears, I went up the gears, he braked hard to try to warm up the brakes, I braked as hard as I could to try to avoid him, I moved to the right to avoid him and I think he was following the safety car, trying not to pick up any debris from Alonso's incident with Ralf, and I was beside him. I was against the wall and I think he wasn't expecting that I would be there trying to avoid him. His back wheel went over my front wheel and that was it."

Asked if he was aware that the safety car would be pulling off at the end of the lap, Montoya replied: "Yeah, everybody knew before that because, they tell the teams that the safety car is coming in on this lap and the lights on the safety car go off.

"If you look at a shot from the inside of the tunnel and you see him braking with the front tyres locking and you see me coming straight up the back of him and I actually managed to avoid him," added the Colombia. "I said at the last race, that it was not the first time it had happened, with Michael, you know, warming up the brakes and things like that, and it is the first time that he was the unlucky one in the incident. I wasn't really interested in going from fifth to fourth by taking Michael off, really."

As for Michael's view of the incident: "The guys behind rely on what the guy in front is doing, and that's what you have to watch for and I certainly wasn't watching my mirrors behind because I believed that everybody knows how to accelerate and brake and so it was a bit of a surprise for me. Seeing the pictures, if I had maybe watched in the mirrors then maybe I could have not gone on the normal line but I wasn't expecting him to be there."

Asked if he agreed with the stewards' decision that it was a "racing accident", Michael replied: "I did accept it, but probably did not agree one hundred percent."