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By Daniel Moxon Lewis Hamilton has been slammed by former team-mate Nico Rosberg for making excuses for his poor results. Hamilton’s best Grand Prix result so far this season is seventh, though he did finish second in Saturday’s Shanghai Sprint race. It raised hopes that the Mercedes driver would be able to compete for pole in qualifying for the main event, but those were quickly dashed. He made a mistake on his final flying lap of Q1 and had to settle for 18th on the grid as a result. Team-mate George Russell fared a little better, reaching Q3 before going eighth fastest. Speaking after the s…