Nico Rosberg has held no punches in criticising Lewis Hamilton for his 'unnecessary' mistake that cost him dearly in qualifying for the Chinese Grand Prix.
Hamilton got off to a strong start on Saturday as he finished second ahead of Sergio Perez in the first sprint race of the season.
That should have given him plenty of optimism heading into qualifying for Sunday's race.
But the seven-time world champion left himself with plenty of work to do in the final stages of Q1 with the track evolving quickly.
Hamilton appeared on track to comfortably make it through to the next stage of qualifying, but he locked up and went wide at the penultimate corner, costing him around six-tenths of a second.
It proved costly as Hamilton ended the session 18th with Rosberg laying into his former team-mate on Sky Sports.
He said: "That is seriously painful. In 18th position is Lewis.
"You know the wind is coming from the back there at that part of the track.
"He had a great lap until then.
"It was really unnecessary to push the limit and as a seven-time world champion that is a mistake which should be unavoidable.
"It's three metres too late and he had the brake balance too far forward.
"He lost at least four tenths which easily would have put him in Q2. That's a disaster."
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