Lewis Hamilton has admitted that Ferrari’s setup changes for the F1 Chinese Grand Prix negatively affected the🦂 car’s handling.

Hamilton could only finish sixth on track at the Shanghai International Circuit - although it got worse when he was later disqu🎀alified for excessive plank wear.

It was a disappointing Sunday for🐷 the seven-time world champion, g🧸iven that he dominated the sprint race from pole position.

Hamilton was forced to let teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc by due to a lack of pace before surrendering fifth to 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen after converting to a two-stop strategy.

The result is in ꦡjeopardy, though, with Hamilton - and Leclerc - under investigation for technical infringements.

Speaking after the rac💖e, before stewards’ decisionౠs, Hamilton said he was happy to try the two-stop strategy.

However, he lamented the s⛎etup tweaks, which didn’t work.

“I am glad we tried something else. I was struggling with performance. Basically, we had a pretty decent car in the sprint and then we made some changes as we tried to i🥀mprove forward and improve the car, and we made it quite a bit worse basically for qualifying and even worse for the race,” Hamilton said.

“Unf🐟ortunate. Very hard to keep up with the cars ahead. Lots to learn. The pit stop is too long here, it’s a lot of seconds to catch up. They were still going fast at the end.

“Max was doing something similar to me and I had mꦍuch fr♔esher tyres. It wasn’t great.”

Lewis Hamilton: “I will know not to do that again”

Hamiltoღn didn’t shed much light on the specific setup changes.

The 40-year-old did mention something Leclerc tested🉐 during Bahrain testing,♚ which both drivers opted for in China.

Hamiltoꦑn was frank 🐠in his assessment that change made the car significantly worse.

“We made some other changes as well as that but not massively, a smal💝l amount,” Ha﷽milton added.

“All the pieces together made it quite a bit worse.🍃 Charles tested something in Bahrain. I hadn’t tested it but we both went that way and it was bad. I will know not✨ to do that again.”