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 G♍rand Prix in what turned out to be a dreadful se♏ssion 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 mostℱly been in front of Lewis. 4-1 now, in qualifying,” the 2016 world champion said during Sky’s F1 coverage of quali🌌fying.

“Lewis tends to say ‘yeah but we have different set-ups and such a big carꦛ difference’. That is his excuse, so far this year.

“Each time 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꧂resti🍸ng.”

Hamilton made an error on his fin💧al lap of Q1 with a lock up at t💮he hairpin, which cost him around six tenths of a second.

Rosberg said the mistake “should be avoidable” for a driver of Hamilton's calibಞre.

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

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

♕“He had the brake balance too far forward. He lost at least f🌱our tenths in that moment, which easily would have put him through. Easily.

“That is a disaster.”