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Canada - Lance Stroll has hit back at Jacques Villeneuve, saying the former Williams driver is "always negative".
1997 world champion Villeneuve, who drove for the British team when he won his title over 20 years ago, is a serial critic of his fellow Canadian Stroll.
What Villeneuve said
Now, Villeneuve has hit out at Williams for reportedly selecting the heavily backed Russian Sergey Sirotkin instead of Robert Kubica to be Stroll's 2018 teammate.
Villeneuve said: "They already sold their soul to the billions of Lawrence Stroll, who only cares about his son."
Stroll, 19, hit back in the pages of the French publication Auto Hebdo: "I don't pay too much attention to what he's saying.
"It's always going to be negative anyway. He never supported me, in every sense of the word. He only sees the negative. Even the Baku podium was not a positive in his eyes," Stroll insisted.
However, Williams' 2018 lineup - expected to be made official in the next week or so - is raising eyebrows throughout the motor racing world.
But two-time champion Mika Hakkinen says sponsorship is just part of the puzzle as a driver moves towards F1.
Hakkinen told Sonntagszeitung newspaper: "You definitely need all the elements to get into formula one -- (including) good contacts and a lot of money.
"It's difficult to name an exact number, but when you reach formula one, you've already burned millions."