168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton has admitted he “paid the price” at the F1 Chinese Grand Prix for making a “bad 💜set-up change” to his Mercedes car.

The seven-time world champion had an encouraging start to the weekend as he claimed his best result of the season by finishing second to Red Bull’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen in Saturday morning’s sprint.

But just a few hours later Hamilton suffered a shock Q1 elဣimination and could only qualify 18th for Sunday’s grand prix, before recovering into the points i🌌n ninth.

Hamilton, who finished three places behind teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell, co🧸nceded that an aggressive 🌳set-up choice, made after the sprint, ultimately backfired.

“Ultimately, I made a bad set-up change to the car [﷽on Saturday] and I paid the price for it. I plan to make sure I don’t do that in the future,” Hamilton said.

“I went forwards and got into the points, but it w✱as a tough race. The car does seem to work in a small window, and I did think it was the correct thing to do.

“Sadly, it made [the grand prix] very difficult. The team did a great job with the pit stops though and George [Russell] did well to score some solid poi🎉nts.”

The level of𒁃 understeer Hamilton experienced in the race led him to believe something on his car was broken.

"I thought maybe at the beginning I tapped someone because I have never had so much understeer in my life, so I was turning in at slow speed and waiting, wait♔ing, waiting," hꦅe explained.

"I thought I had damaged something like some of the others because there was debris going everywhere at one point but it was just the set-up that I c♈hose.

"With better decisionꦛs on set-up, maybe we would be around where George [Russell, who finished sixth] is but we just have to keep fighting."