Toto Wolff says Mercedes “turned the car upside down” after enduring a difficult start to the F1 Singapore Grand Prix weekend.

Both Mercedes drivers were left puzzled by their lack of pace during Friday practice in Singapore, with168澳洲5最新开奖结果: George Russell ending the day seventh, while 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton only managed to go 11th.

Things improved during Saturday’s final practice ahead of qualifying, with Russell finishing second-quickest, nearly half a second down on the blistering pace set by McLaren’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris.

Speaking to Sky Sports F1 after FP3, Wolff reveale♛d Merceജdes made big changes to their W15 challenger overnight.

“I t🦋hink with these cars you never quite understand,” Wolff said.

“We turne🐎d the car upside down, literally. It seems to be in a much better balance window. The whole [FP3] class🌸ification was a bit odd.

“Lando so far ahead, then big spreads between teammates.💧”

Hamilton improved slightly to go seventh-quickest in FP3, though the se🗹ven-time world champion was well off Ru🌃ssell’s pace and 1.2s slower than Norris’s benchmark.

A downbeat Hamilton admitted on Friday that Mercedes werꦰe “just a bit lost” with their✱ car’s set-up and predicted he would struggle to make it into Q3 in qualifying.

"The car feels very difficult. A veဣry challenging day," Hamilton said after FP2. "We tried everything set-up wise and nothing seems to work with the set-up. Def👍initely very challenging.

"We are giving it everything then you find out you are a second off. Ultimately, just a bit lost.🐻 Not really sure where to put the ca🍸r."

Asked why Hamilton still appeared to be struggling in FP3🎶, Wolff explained: “They have a bit of a different set-up and we tried a few things in t꧅he session, so that’s not the gap you would normally have with the same car.”

Wolff added Hamilton’s gap to Ru🌜ssell was only “partially” understood.