168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton has explained why he reported that his F1 seat had broken in the middle of the♛ Bahrain Gr🐬and Prix.

Hamilton reported ov𓆉er team radio midway through Saturday’s race that he noticed a flaw with the seat🔯 in his cockpit.

He told Mercedes race 🐻engineer Peter Bonnington: “My seat is broken”.

It ✱didn’t prove to be detrimental as Hamilton finished the 57-lap in Bahrain, securing seventh-place in the season-opener.

Speaking to DAZN afterwards, Hamilton revealed that he notic🧔ed his seat had “just shifted” leaving his own rear-end “in the air”.

“Yeah, honestly I ꦇthink I was braking into Turn 1 and then the seat just shifted, and✃ my left butt cheek fell, basically,” he said. “I think it just cracked, just snapped, something snapped, so then it was moving around for a while.

“Like my butt was𒅌 in t✨he air. On one side it was up in the air.”

Interestingly, the issue wasn’t mentioned by Hamilton nor Mercedes in their po🔯st-race debrief.

Given the safety factors - and implications an unsafe seat could have - it’s unsurp𒆙rising.

Mercedes’ race was ultimately compromised by incorrect cooling on the Wꦛ15, costing them ap🌳proximately 0.4s per lap due to overheating.

Mercedes tr❀ackside engineering chief Andrew Shovlin conceded the Bahrain GP was “underwhelming” 💞and “frustrating” for the team as a result.

“The race proved an underwhelming and frustratin🌜g experience today,” he added. “We were beset with overheating issues early on that we were forced to♏ manage throughout the vast majority of the Grand Prix.

“The extra lift and coast the drivers were forced to do as a result of this also caused them to lose tyre temperature. They did their best to cope, with George trying valiantly to defend from those behind and Lewis chasing thos🐼e ahead. Ultimately, P5 and P7 was likely the best we could d💯o with the issues we were facing. 

“It was disappointing that we underperformed today. We will go away and review what we could𓄧 have done differently. We will also look at our overall set-up as it was clear that neither driver was as happy with the balance of the car as they were over the🅘 rest of the weekend. These are all challenges of a new car and we're looking forward to coming back stronger in Jeddah next week.”