Nico Rosberg unimpressed with former F1 nemesis Lewis Hamilton and urges Mercedes to ‘have a word with him’
Most of the drivers took the opportunity to test out the conditions on intermediate tyres as rain fell during the final hour of pract💟ice in Barcelona on Saturday morning.
But Hamilton decided against running on the we꧅t-weather tyres, something that Rosberg - who pipped the seven-time world champion to the world title in 2016 bef♎ore retiring from F1 - questioned.
"Look, now Lewis is💧 in a rush to get his belts on because he was out of the car,” Rosberg said during Sky’s coverage.
"I think Bradley [Lord, Mercedes communications director] should have had a word wಞith him.
"Maybe this is Bradley, that༒'s w🌱hy Lewis is back in the car.”
Having revealed he had spoken to Mercedes after the session, Rosberg added: “Lewis could 🌳have perhaps made a little bit of a better effort in FP3 and been out there more to learn a bit more.
“It was in fact his decision to be in the garage for all that time and to also go out a bit late on th𓆉e softs. So they [Mercedes] did say it was perhaps not 100 percent ideal.
“But then again, as a seven-time world champi🐬on you could allow yourself to do that.”
Hamilton showed potential signs of improvement for Mercedes after a difficult opening day of practice🅠 by ending FP3 third behind the two Red Bulls.
The Briton, who admitted at the end of Friday that he feared for his top-10 chances in qualifying, was just over four-tenths shy of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen’s benchmark.
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