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 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 been in front of Le🉐wis. 4-1 now, in qualifyin🐬g,” the 2016 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 ti💝me he says that, George says: ‘The last time I✃ checked, the cars are pretty similar…’

“He has gone a🎃gain, for that. So it’s interesting.”

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

Rosberg said theꩵ mistake “should be avoidable” for a drive🐎r of Hamilton's calibre.

“That is pa🅷inful. That is seriously painful,” Rosberg added. “18th position, Lewis. You know that the wind is coming from the back.

“He’d had a gr꧟eat lap until 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 fa🐼r forward. He lost at least four tenths in that moment, 💦which easily would have put him through. Easily.

“That is a disaster.”