Nico Rosberg has labelled his former team Mercedes’ current F1 struggles꧂ “strange” and “difficult 🌌to understand”.

Rosberg drove for Mercedes during the height of their F1 domination - in which they claimed an unprecedented eight consecutive constructors’ world championships - and narrowly beat 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton🐽 to the world title in 2016 before retiring from the sport.

But since the introduct꧋ion of major new regulations in 2022, Mercedes’ fortunes have changed dramatically, with the German manufacturer only managing one grand prix victory.

Mercedes had another disappointing result at the Chinese Grand Prix as 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell qualified eighth, while Hamilton suffered a shock Q1 elim🍌ination and was only 18th.

“It’s so strange, and difficult, to understand how the incredible Mercedes team stru🐎ggles to understand the new regulations aerodynamically, and how to get the most out of it,” Rosberg said during Sky Sports F1’s coverage of qualifying.

“It has changed a lot. Now the aerodynamics are so much mo♏re important under the car, rather than over the car. Under is far more difficult to measure in the wind tunnel, and to correlate what you find in the wind tunnel to the ꦜreal world.

“But somehow they don’t get it right.”

Analysing Mercedes’ weakness 🦹in qual🥂ifying, Karun Chandhok noted: “George looked pretty despondent. Hamilton made a mistake,” Chandhok said.

“Lewis was up, on the lap. On a decent lap. He went so deep into the hairpin and ran wide into the kerb. He lಞost six tenths there.

“The car performance wasn’t there, but six tenths would have put him in💃to P5 [ahe𝐆ad of] Oscar Piastri, which is not bad.”

Chandhok also compared Mercedes’ performance against customer team Aston Martin, whose driver 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso claimed a brilliant third on the grid.

“Alons🐷o didn’t have a good run. As he starts꧒ to wind the lock on, he gets a snap of oversteer. It put him off line,” Chandhok added.

“♌Russell also had a snap of oversteer but not as bad. Despite the poorer run, Alonso has ꧑pulled time on Russell. He had more rotation, was able to carry more speed into the apex.

“It see👍ms🌌 to me that the Mercedes doesn’t rotate as well in the low speed corners.

"In Turn 7, both drivers were flat-out. In terms of positioning, Russell did not quite have the grip. He d💧idn’t have the confidence to attack. A sna꧙p of oversteer put him off line. That compromises his line.

“This means, when we get through 9 and 10, Al🐎onso was quite clearly ahead.

“I🐽nto 10, Alonso was using less kerb. He is still able to rotate the car better, and use a tighter radius. That launches him onto the straight. I think he’s able to get onto the throttle earlier, as well♓, because he’s able to get through 11 and 12 with better rotation.

“On the hairpin, at the apex, Alonso was so m🔯uch deeper than Russell. Because he takes a wider radius, he carries more speed, I think. It doesn’t hurt him. You can see that he’s quite a chunk ahead. Despite doing a bigger distance, he has not lost anything.

“For Russell, so ♚much of it was lost in the first half of the lap. The Mercedes just does not seem to have the grip underneath it.”