Lꦗewis Hamilton has been accused of “spinning” his qualifying woes around Mercedes’ upgrade in Monaco.

Hamilton op🥃ted to allow teammate George R✤ussell to run the updated front wing last weekend.

After qualifying behind Russell for the seventh time in ei꧂ght attempts this year, Hamilton oddly declared: “I don’t anticipate being ahead of George in qualifying particularly, this year.”

Jamie Chadwick noted 🉐that Hamilton did not ꦯseem happy on Saturday in Monaco.

“He didn’t,” the Andretti Indy NXT driver told Channel 4 after q✨ualifying.

“But I think he knows what he’s doing.

“He’s spinning it, to make it sound like he’s not got the✤ upgrades this weekend.

“I think he should take his hat off to George♛, who is 7-1 up against someone like Lewis.

“Lewis is probably not happy a👍bout🐎 that, to be honest. And that’s where that comment has come from.

“Of course, he’s on his way out.

“George🔯 is staying in that seat for what they hope will be a long time.

“They need to keep G꧃eorge happy, and that might come off the back of Lewis not being happy.

“He🎃’s doing an incജredible job. He’s smashing [Hamilton].”

🗹Fox Mexico journalist Diego 🌸Mejia told the F1 Nation podcast: “It’s been a joy to speak to Lewis this year.

“Although he’s not getting victories, po🥂diumsꩲ or pole positions, he has been quite relaxed. Looking at the bright side, always.

“He has been in that mo💙od🐟 until [the Monaco Grand Prix] weekend. He is a little less zen.

“Since he was announced as a Ferrari driver, we kn🉐ew at some point in the year he wouldn’t be in all the meetings🌠 with all the information.

“The normal process that a driver ☂leaving for a rival team faces.

“But Lewis’ message is that thiꦡs is coming earlier. That’s﷽ what it seems from the outside.”

Mercedes trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin insisted that Hamilton made the decision to let Russell run their onl🅠y upgraded wing in Monaco “simply f🔜or us”.

Shovlin added that the team anticipate having upd𒉰ated wing on each of their cars, plus a spare, in Canada for the next grand prix.