Lewis Hamilton 'very angry' as Nico Rosberg details rising tensions in Mercedes garage

Lewis Hamilton will be "very angry" at starting another race behind George Russell, according to Nico Rosberg. The F1 2022 season has not gone to plan for Mercedes so far with the W13 nowhere near close to challenging Red Bull and Ferrari.

Hamilton benefitted from Red Bull's reliability issues in Bahrain to finish on the podium, but he's struggled since then. Russell finished just behind Hamilton in Bahrain, but has beaten his team-mate on both occasions since then in Saudi Arabia and Australia.

And it was the same outcome in qualifying on Friday at Imola with Russell in 11th and Hamilton only managing 13th. The seven-time world champion's frustrations were clear on Friday when he was spotted having a heated exchange with Toto Wolff in the team garage.

Rosberg knows better than most how Hamilton deals with pressure having been the only man at Mercedes to beat the Brit in a full season. And the 2016 F1 champion knows Hamilton will be "very angry" at the current situation with Russell starting ahead of him for Sunday's race.

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"Let's not forget, Lewis hates ending up behind his team-mate," he said on Sky Sports. "Even if you're 11th and 13th. He really, really, passionately hates coming in behind his team-mate. It makes him very angry and that also happened in qualifying and the race this weekend so far.

"That's also going to put the tensions up a lot in the engineering room where Lewis is going to be pushing harder and harder so it's going to be interesting to see how that unfolds."

Hamilton still has little over 18 months on his current contract with Mercedes, but their current woes this year has led to some questions whether he will call it quits at the