Porpoising and bouncing was an issue that hampered Mercedes’ W13 challenger for long period♊s of last season until they fin𝔉ally got on top of the issue.

The issues have not been as prevalent 🦂this year but seven-time world champion Hamilton revealed that returning bouncing pro🅰blems in his W14 made his weekend more challenging. 

“It was kind of a non-eventful race,” Hamilton told Sky after finishin🐟g fourth in Sunday’s race in Belgium. 

“There wasn’t much going on and I wasn’t able to keep up with the cars ahead of me. I struggleꦐd at the beginning. 

“The rear-end is our biggest♏ issue and we had big bouncing this weekend so we were back to the bouncing like we had last year.

“At the end I was keeping the Ferrari within a few seconds but I couldn't🉐 get any closer to battle and to get the fastest lap at the end, it was nice to have the gap to the car behin⛄d. 

"The last lap was decent. It wa♋s gusty today, it was difficult out there to keep it on track.” 

Asked how much of a concern the returning bouncing problem is, Hamilton replied: “[T🧸he team] don’t know [what’s caused the bouncing]. 

“To me it is a concern but we’ll work ๊through the data this week and try a😼nd figure out what we do for the next race.

“I know what I want, I’m praying for it 🎐and I’m just waiting for the day we get 🀅it."