Nico Rosberg has claimed that168澳洲5最新开奖结果: 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 Chinꦉese Grand Prix in what turned out 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5最新开奖结果: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5最新开奖结果:George Russell.

“George has mostly been in front of Lewis. 4-1 now, in qualifying,” the 2016 world🦩 champion said during Sky’s F1 covera🐈ge of qualifying.

“Lewis tends to say ‘yeah but we have d🥀ifferent set-ups and such a big car difference𒁏’. That is his excuse, so far this year.

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

“He has gone again, for that. So it’s inte🍨resting.”

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

Rosberg said the mistake “should be avoidable” for a driver of Ha🦩milton's calibre.

“That is painful. That is seriously painful,𒊎” Rosberg added. “18th position, Lewis. You know that the windꦐ is coming from the back.

“He’d had a great lap unt▨il then. It w💛as really unnecessary to push the limit so much. For a seven-time world champion, that’s a mistake which should be avoidable.

“He h💟ad the brake balance too far forward. He lost at least four tenths in that moment, which easily would have put him through. Easily.

“That is a disaster.”