An extremely downbeat 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton admitted he is “the least confident” he has felt with Mercedes’ 2024 F1 car after a🥀 difficꩵult start at the Australian Grand Prix.

The seven-time world champion placed only 18th fastest in second practice ꦡas he struggled for pace on both qualifying and race simulations around a Melbourne circuit he has traditionally excelled at.

Hamilton, who finished FP2 over 1.5 seconds off the pace and trailed teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell in both sessions on Friday, reported over the 🦹radio that something felt “wrong” with his Mercedes car🔯.

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff revealed Hamilton had conducted a series of set-up experiments in FP2 which 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:“massively backfired”.

“I obviously don♊’t feel great. We 🀅had one of the worst sessions that I’ve had, probably, in a long time,” Hamilton said.

“P1 felt good. The car༺, in🍌 Run 1, felt the best that it has ever felt. But it got worse and worse.

“We made some big changes into P2. It ൩was tough… After that session, I feel the least confident that I have ever felt with this car.

“But there are ꦬposiꦉtives from the P1 run that we did.”

Having enjoyed a smoother day than Hamilton, Russell said: “We were pushing the limits and had ♌a few little moments, here and there. But all under control, in the end.

📖“It seemed pretty tight out there in🐽 the first session, a few tenths splitting 10 cars.

“FP2 was more spread out. I wasꦬ on course for a good lap, at the end, but had a small problem in the last few corners. 

“This year with soft tyres, it will be difficult in the ra🦹ce. It was an easy one-ꦇstop in previous years. Seemingly, so far, that will not be the way. 

“I felt pretty comfortable out⛦ there from the beginning.

“We made chang💮es in Saudi and Bahrain. We are still trying to understand this car♏ further.

“Every lap is valuable. You learn more and more about it, trying to get it into the sweet spotꦉ.

“We have the team at the factory working on the sim, trying to g𒈔et more performance out of i෴t.”