Mercedes have admitted that set-up experiments on168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Lewis Hamilton’s car at the F1 Chines♓e Grand Prix “wasn’t the right thing to do”.

The seven-time world champion recovered to ninth in Shanghai after starting from a lowly 18th following a disastrous 🍬qualifying performance which he blamed on an aggressive set-up experiment.

Mercedes have been trialing different set-ups at the s๊tart of the 2024 season as they look to better understand the W15 and unlock more performance from it.

Hamilton finished second in the sprint race but his☂ fortunes drastically changed in qualifying after revealing he had made “massiveꦕ changes” to his car.

“Going in this morning, George [Rusꩲsell] and I had very similar cars but then this afternoon, we j🐲ust switched, trying to experiment still with the car,” he said on Saturday.

“So I went one way, a long way, and he went the other way, just to see if we can find anything. That’s what✤ we need ✱to do at the moment. But yeah. Didn’t work.”

Hamilton struggled with rear tyre temperatures throughout Sunday’s grand prix 𒈔which🍷 Mercedes suspects was a direct result of the balance of his W15.

After the race, Hamilton told his race engineer Peter ‘Bono’ Bonnington: “I won’t make that set-up change again, Bono. That was my b🅷ad. Thank you guys, and good job on the pit stops.”

Mercedes team pr🐷incipal Toto Wolff told Sky Sport🤡s F1 that the changes backfired.

"It's not an OK car. We can see whꦛat the mistakes are 🐟on the car,” Wolff explained.

“We wanted to go a bit more aggressive to see if it was something so different we needed to do on th﷽at car and you can see Lewis today took it on him, that was maybe a step too far.”

Wolff added: "The race car was not fast. You hear him saying the car doesn't turn and this is what we can see in th🔯e data. It wasn't the right thing to do.”

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell outqualifed Ham༒ilton for the fourth time in five races this season and finished sixth, three places ahead of his teammate.