Hamilton set tongues wagging at the F1 Italian Grand Prix by claimiꦇng the his former teammates over the years were a stronger bunch than anyone Vers🌱tappen has been alongside.

Rosberg is the only ex-teammate to win a F1 championship while in the same carꦿ as Hamilton.

“It’s strange that Lewis talks about ꦯthat: ‘my team-mates were better’,”🌞 Rosberg said on Sky TV.

"Where did that come from? A bit strange.

"But I do think he has a point. 

“He had three world champions 🐻as team-mates. That says a lot, doesn’t i﷽t? So I do think it’s correct. 

“Nevertheless, it’s not really that relevant because we all💧 know how amazingly awesome Max is drivi✃ng.

“Max ꧅is going very strongly towards that same level as Hamilton, Michael Schu♉macher, Ayrton Senna. He’s gonna be one of those closely almost top-five greats.”

Rosberg, Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso were teammates with Hamilton an☂d are also ex-F🔥1 champions.

Hamilton origi🦹nally said: “All my team-mates have been stronger than the team-mates t꧃hat Max has had.

"T🎉hese guys have all been very consistent, and Max has not raced against anyone like that.”

Verstap๊pen hit back by claiming Hamilton was “jealous”.