Nico Rosberg has claimed that168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lewis Hamilton is making ‘excuses’ for his poor qualifying displays so far during the 2024 F1 season.

Seven-time world champion Hamilton could only qualify 18th for Sunday’s Chinese Grand Prix in what turned ou💧t to be a dreadful session in Shanghai.

Hamilton said he had made “massive changes” to his car’s set-up following a brilliant run to second behind Red Bull’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen in Saturday morning’s sprint race.

But former title rival and Mercedes teammate Rosberg was critical of Hamilton as he suffered his latest qualifying defeat to 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell.

“George has mostly be🌠en in front of Lewis. 4-1 now, in qualifying,” the 201𓃲6 world champion said during Sky’s F1 coverage of qualifying.

“Lewis tends to say ‘yeah⛎ but we have different set-ups and such a big car difference’. ✃That is his excuse, so far this year.

“Each time he says that, George says: ‘The last time I checked, the cars ar♎e pretty similar…’

“He has gone again, for that. So it’s intere🅘sting.”

Hamilton m𝕴ade an 🍃error on his final lap of Q1 with a lock up at the hairpin, which cost him around six tenths of a second.

Rosberg said the mistake “sh🍨🦄ould be avoidable” for a driver of Hamilton's calibre.

🌜“That is painful. That is seriously painful,” Rosberg added. “18th position, 𒆙Lewis. You know that the wind is coming from the back.

“He’d had a great lap until then. It was reaཧlly unnecessary to push the limit so much. For a seven-time world champioℱn, that’s a mistake which should be avoidable.

“He had the brake balan🌟ce too far forward. He lost at least four tenths in that moment, which easily would have put him through. Easily.

“That is a disaster.”