The seven-time world champion finished outside the top 10 in both practice sessions on Friday and ended the day a lowly 14th, over one second slower than168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Max Verstappen’s benchmark. 

Just as he did in Singapore, teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell appeared to hold the edge as he took fifth with a time 0.50🐎1s faster than Hamilton, who admitted he has started the Suzuka weekend on the back foot. 

Asked if FP2 had felt any better t🐻han FP1 (where Hamilton was 16th), he replied: “Nope! It was a really bad day, to be honest.

“A real stܫr🌌uggle out there. A long way off. Two seconds off in the first session and over a second off in the second, so just working away to try and fix the car and the balance.”

Hamilton added: “It is just [about] figur💯ing out what is wrong. We obviously were much closer in the last race but we didn’t have any high-speed. 

“There was only oneও high-speed corner but it is not as high as th👍e corners here. Our car is more often than not more weaker in high-speed corners. 

“It is an area wherܫe we need to work on to ﷽get the car in a better sweet-spot and not overheating our tyres as much. 

“We will work on it overnight and try to turn it around but we definitely won’t ꦆbe winning this weekend. 

“If I can particularly move a little bit up ꧒the order so I can at least back up… George did not so bad a lap, so yeah. Tough one.” 

Russell described it as a “half-reasonable day” but said it is clear that Red Bull are back to their “normal✨ ways” after suffering a shock defeat in Singapore. 

“Red Bull are ꧒back to their normal ways, which I don’t think is a major surprise,” he said. “They seem very, very quick but not too far from P2. I think there’s two-tenths in it. So I think they’ll be a good fight between the Ferraris and Lando.

“We’re probably half a second behind Ferrari and Lando, so we got a bit of work to do tonight to close that gap. It’s going to be a really interesting ra🙈ce Sunday because tyre deg looks really really high.”