Lewis Hamilton has been tওold his “ex🌱cuses must stop”.

The Mercedes driver saw last weekend’s F1 Chinese Grand Prix deteriorate as he made setඣ-up changౠes to his W15.

Hamilton excellent in sprint qualifying 🀅and in the sprint race before, he said, making “making changes” to his car before✨ an error ruined qualifying for the grand prix.

ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚHe started from 18th and finished in P9, but has now been questioned by a former F1 technical director.

Gary Anderson - who mꦓost notably worked at the Jordan F1 team - wrote in  that Hamilton’s “excuses must stop at some point”.

Hamilton was warned that Me🌸rcedes have “a fundamental problem” and “no amount of set-up changes will fix it”.

So, Hamilton’s desperate search for a tweak which ꦑwill take him to the front of F1 is destined to fail, Anderson wrote.

More concerningly, the ex-F1 car🐓 designer insisted that the “decision-making process on Hamilton’s side of the garage has t﷽o be questioned”.

It was noted that Hamilton took responsibility for the set-up changes to his car, but it was questioned𝓰 who was involved.

A group including “key engineers” and perhaps even♔ team pr💙incipal Toto Wolff should have been involved, Anderson insists.

He also claimed that🦹 change♕s to the W15 are “probably not as wild as [Hamilton] would have us believe”.

The t꧋hree small areas of significant change to ground-effect era F1 cars were listed as “ride height, spring stiffness and fro♒nt and rear wing aerodynamic balance”.

And Hamilton was reminded that no set-up change will greatly impro🉐ve a car’s fundamental base-line, but they could drastically misalign its balance.

Hamiltonꦆ “does not seem willing to accept the reali♔ty” of the W15 and is being led “astray” by set-up tweaks, Anderson wrote.

His tinkering will impact the Mercedes in 2025 and beyond, when Hamilton will n﷽o longer💜 be with the team, it has been warned.

Constant cﷺhanges means a base-line can never be reliably trusted.

And without 💮credible data to take to the wind tunnel, the direction for future development can become muddled.

Hamilton, in his final year with Merced💎es, was finally told to “look and learn” from teammate George Russell in order to fini𒊎sh as the team’s best driver this season.