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 out to be a dreadful session in Shangh🐽ai.

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 been in front of Lewis. 4-1 now, in qualifying,” the 2016 world champion said 🐟during Sky’s F1 coverage of qualifying.

“L𝓀ewis tends to say ‘yeah but we have different set-ups and such a big car difference’. T🌃hat is his excuse, so far this year.

“Each time he says that, George says: ‘⛦T🐼he last time I checked, the cars are pretty similar…’

“He has gone again, for that. So it’s intere𝓡sting.”

Hamilton made 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 “should be avoidable” for a driver of Hamilton's cali💦bre.

“That is painful. That is seriously painful,” Rosberg♒ added. “18th position, Lewisᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ. You know that the wind is coming from the back.

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

“He had the brake balance too far forward. He lost at least four tenths in that mo♈ment, which easily would have put him thr♑ough. Easily.

“That is a disaster.”