Lewis Hamilton hasn't been shy in criticising his Mercedes team following his poor showing in Monaco, but former F1 driver Jan Lammers believes the Brit's sluggish performance was his own doing. Things never clicked for Hamilton throughout his weekend, as he followed up his disappointing showing in qualifying by finishing seventh on Sunday. Hamilton said there are lessons for Mercedes, and not himself, to learn following the race, an attitude that Lammers believes is the wrong one. "I think his behaviour is pretty inconsistent," Lammers told RacingNews365.com . "We give him all the credit when he wins, or when he takes pole position. Fans and media are full of praise and give him all the plaudits, but then when things don't go well one weekend, he blames his team. "That's not chic." Lammers believen Hamilton's weekend went downhill after his less than stellar performance in qualifying. "It went wrong for Hamilton in qualifying," Lammers added. "He can complain about the team and the strategy and so on, but if he had driven a little bit longer on Saturday, the team wouldn't have had this problem either. "So the suggestion that he couldn't have done anything better himself was pretty pretentious. That was just the wrong comment, and he didn't make any fans." Lammers, who until now has been complimentary of Hamilton's performances so far in the title race, believes it shows how someone can change when the pressure is on. "Up until now he was exemplary and comfortable in the competition with Max, but you get to know him when he has a bad weekend," stated Lammers. "He had a bad weekend, himself and the team. If he had just qualified better, the team would not have been so on edge. And the fact is he just let [Vallteri] Bottas drive him to ruin. He is criticising the team for bad decisions as a result of his own bad qualifying. I think that's very wrong."
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