Following the debacle, he thinks that his team will continue to throw away valuable world championship points unless it manages to get to grips with its troublesome launch control system.

The German and his team mate Jarno Trulli put in the best team performance of the season to qualify fourth and fifth respectively , but in the first few hundreds yards of the race, all their good work had gone up in smoke with Jarno being pushed into the gravel trap by Coulthard.

Frentzen struggled to get off the grid as his launch control system malfunctioned - and it is not the first time it has happened this season. In Austria, both Jordans were embarrassingly left on the grid.

"For some reason we are not up to date with the starts," said Frentzen, who finished the Silverstone race back in seventh. "We pretty much lost it all at the start and we never managed to get back again. This is very difficult and we are losing valuable points. I am disappointed.
"Then during the race I broke an aerodynamic device (a barge board) which gave me a lot of understeer and I couldn't really overtake anymore," he added. "It was just a matter of getting to the finish after that, but I was two seconds a lap slower than I could have been."