Fernando Alonso, to Hamilton: "What an idiot!"

The controversy is already served at the

.

In the third corner of the Spa circuit,

, who started third and was already second, and

, who was behind the Spaniard, had an incident that ended with the Briton out of the race and with an insult from the Spaniard: "He's an idiot!"

It all happened when Hamilton tried to overtake Alonso on the outside.

In a very tight section of the circuit, the Alpine driver did not give in and the lack of space ended with Hamilton's right rear wheel jumping over Alonso's left front tyre.

Although in the first meters Hamilton was able to continue circulating, he finally had to leave.

A few minutes later, the television showed Alonso's conversation with his mechanics.

"What an idiot! Closing the door from the outside. We had made a mega start, but this boy only knows how to drive and go out when he goes first," were the words of the driver who will run in Aston Martin this year.

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