At the F1 Brazilian Grand Prix sprint shootout, there was another chapter written in the Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon rivalry.
The Spaniard and the Frenchman, who had various disagreements while racing together for Alpine, are now in different teams.
On Saturday, they crashed during the sprint shootout, as Ocon lost control of the car, crashing into Alonso.
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The result of this incident is that Alonso will start the sprint race 15th and Ocon 16th.
That's if Alonso can even start the sprint race, as the car suffered a lot of damage.
Ocon calls Fernando Alonso an "idiot"
Far from being self-critical, Ocon blamed Alonso and even called him an "idiot" over the radio.
However, the Frenchman's onboard camera shows him losing control of the car when he had more than enough room to take the corner.
A much more restrained Alonso simply explained to the team that he was damaged and that Ocon had gone straight into him. The footage shows that there was little or nothing that the Spaniard could have done to avoid the situation.
Speaking afterwards, Ocon insisted that he didn't lose control and cause the accident himself.
"People say I lost the car, that's not true," the Frenchman stated.
As for Alonso, he was a lot calmer and blamed bad luck.
"There is a lot of damage to both cars," Alonso said.
"I haven't seen the replay, but someone told me that Ocon apparently lost the car a little bit.
"One of those wrong place, wrong time situations."
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