Flavio Briatore rubbed salt in the wound of the recently fired Ferrari team boss, Marco Mattiacci.

The Italian published a photo on his Twitter feed of himself with Fernando Alonso in Dubai. Both are sporting wide smiles, but of most interest was the cigarette in Briatore's hand and the packet of Marlboro underneath.

It's clear he meant for the cigarette packet to be noticed, since Mattiacci's replacement for next season, Maurizio Arrivabene worked for that tobacco brand. The rift between Mattiacci and Alonso was sizeable and this was the way that Briatore wanted to show how much he's on the side of the man who was his pupil at Renault.