Mercedes F1 engineer Andrew Shovlin says the team is concerned by how much time they were losing in the hig🌊h-speed corners in Saudi Arabia - conceding it could be a problem in Australia as well.

The Brackley-based outfit endured a frustrating race at the Jeddah Corniche Circuit as they finished sixth with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell and ninth with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton.

Mercedes were♐ considerably weak in the first sector which consists of high-speed, sweeping corners.

This was most notable when Hamilton was following 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris in the latter part of Saturday's race.

The seven-time world champion would be within 0.5s going 🌱into the first corner, then Norris would break the one-second DRS gap.

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has♉ already said that their current car has a “fundamental” issue which they don’t yet understand.

Speaking after the race, Shovlin, who is their trackside engineering director, gave his  view on the situation♓꧋ for Mercedes.

"We've not performed well this weekend,” he said. “🗹Our high-🏅speed performance has been weak, and the car is bouncing in those corners.

“That contributed to our poor qualifying but also 🌳meant we couldn't challenge Aston Martin and the McLarens in the rac🎐e.

“We were losing so 🐭much time in sector one that we spent the re꧋st of the lap clawing it back.”

The next two races in Australia and Japan are high-speed circuits, meaning Mercedes could be set for another couple of difficult weekends if they can’t 🍰fix their weaknesses.

"Overall, it ha⛦s been a very frustrating weekend but 🦋ultimately one of our own making,” he added. “We've seen glimpses of strong performance, but it's not been easy to land the set-up in the right place and we've clearly got some weaknesses that still need ironing out.

“We are going 𓆉to have⭕ to work hard between now and Melbourne to improve. The tracks are similar and we don’t want another weekend like this one.”