Rubens Barrichello felt he was lucky to be alive following a hair-raising duel with former Ferrari team-mate Michael Schumacher.
Barrichello laid into the seven-times Champion after claiming 10th place from Schumacher four laps from home of the Hungarian Grand Prix, after almost ending up in the pit wall for his troubles.
Mercedes star Schumacher blatantly squeezed Barrichello to the right of the start-finish straight as the Brazilian attempted to pass, coming within millimetres of hitting the concrete barrier.
'If he wants to go to heaven - in the event he is going to heaven - I don't want to go before him'...
Rubens Barrichello
The incident left Barrichello fuming, and the stewards were on his side as they hit Schumacher with a 10-place grid penalty for the next race in Belgium on August 29 for illegitimately impeding the Williams driver.
Barrichello was later scathing in his comments as he said: "It was a go-kart manoeuvre.
"If he wants to go to heaven - in the event he is going to heaven - I don't want to go before him.
"Thank God I was lucky the wall finished where it did because I was millimetres from it.
"I said to the stewards we are two of the most experienced guys out there, and if Michael does that, it means kids can do that too.
"That is where it is wrong in my opinion. But I am just very glad and very lucky we are here to talk, honestly."
Asked whether he had spoken with Schumacher, Barrichello refused to let up in his condemnation of the man he spent six seasons working alongside, and playing second fiddle to, at Ferrari.
"I won't speak to him because it won't resolve things," added the 38-year-old.
"You know Michael. You talk to him and he will always feel that he is right.
"But I'm a just guy, and justice was done in a way because he has been away for three years and he hasn't changed a thing. He is still the same guy.
"I love racing, but what has been done to me is literally over the top."
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