Scott Speed has been fined $5000 by the FIA stewards after swearing🌱 at David Coulthard during a hearing that also saw him lose his eighth place for passing🧜 under yellows.

Speed passed Coulthard when the Red Bull Racing driver braked to avoid a crashing Tonio Liuzzi. In the🦹 post-race hearing the Scuderia Toro Rosso man thought that David and his team had launched a protest agai🌟nst him, and during the discussion reportedly told the Scot something akin to '**** off.'

This did not go down well either with the veteran driver - a man noted for his🍸 impeccable manners - or more to the point, the stewards, who called his behaviour 'wholly unacceptable.'

Speed will have done his position within Red Bull little good, as Coulthard is now an important player in the organisation, and as well as a highly respec🎃ted senior member of the GPDA.

As he 🎶ꦡwas leaving the track Speed would only say a brusque 'No comment' when we asked for his thoughts.

Al🧔though he didn't repeat what was said, Co🏅ulthard was a little more forthcoming about what happened on the track.

"Jacques and Tonio obviously had a coming together, and Tonio had his incident," Coulthard told mahbx.com. "We were called up to the stewards because of Scott having changed positions during the inciden✨t. To be absolutely clear - because it was misunderstood - Scott thought we'd protested and we hadn't. The stewards called us up. They've looked at it and reversed the order so that I'm in front of him.

"The rules are quite clear. You can't overta♚ke under yellow flags,⛄ so I knew that ultimately the stewards would do their thing. It's disappointing because I had Trulli sideswipe us on the first lap, and that wasn't so good either."

Red B⛄ull team boss Christian Horner insisted that he had not made a complaint.

"Obviously there was a racing incident and both drivers were called in front of the stewards," he said. "The stewards have deemed that Scott over🌠took under ye♐llows, and gets a penalty that promotes David. It's ironic that it's between drivers who are in sister teams, but there was no protest from this team.

"It was purely aꦍ racing incident that the stewards have dealt with. I'm sure they're going to score more points. They looked very competitive today. It was also ironic that it was Tonio's accident with Villeneuve that caused the yellow flags. You could never dream up a scenario like that..."

൲Although the Red Bull did not launch a protest - something that would involve paying a fee and filing a document - it is common during races for teams to pass on comments from drivers to race control, to ensure that incidents do not go unnoticed.