Mercedes have admitted that set-up experiments on168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lewis Hamilton’s car at the F1 Chinese Grand Prix “wasn’t the right thing to🌼 do”.

T💫he 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 e༒xperiment.

Merce♓des have been trialing different set-ups at the start of the 202𓆉4 season as they look to better understand the W15 and unlock more performance from it.

Hamilton finished second in tꦐhe sprint race but his fortunes drastically changed in qual🧸ifying after revealing he had made “massive changes” to his car.

“Going in this morning, George [Russell] ♔and I had very similar cars but then this afternoon, we just switched, trying to experiment still with the car,” he saiꦿd on Saturday.

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

Hamilton struggled with rear tyre temper💟atures throughout Sunday’s g൲rand prix which Mercedes suspects was a direct result of the balance of his W15.

Afte🥃r the race, Hamilton told his race engineer Peter ‘Bono’ Bonni𒀰ngton: “I won’t make that set-up change again, Bono. That was my bad. Thank you guys, and good job on the pit stops.”

Mercedes team pri🅷ncipal Toto Wolff told Sky Sports F1 that the changes backfired.

"It's not an OK car. We can see wh🅰at the mistakes are on the car,”🔥 Wolff explained.

🍌“We wanted to go a bit more aggressive to see if it was something so diffeᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚrent we needed to do on that 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 tꦏhe car doesn't turn and thi﷽s is what we can see in the data. It wasn't the right thing to do.”

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell outqualifed Hamilton for the fourth time in five races this season and finished🌠 sixth, three places ahead of his teammate.