Lewis Hamilton has described ꦅhis performance during Formula 1’s 🙈German Grand Prix as “probably the worst day I’ve had for a long time”.

Despite battling illness throughout the weekend, Hamilton took advantage of reliability problems for Ferrari during qualifying to claim pole position, and led the early stages on Sunday until 💞his race began to unravel in ch💦angeable conditions.

Hamilton had to mak☂e an unscheduled stop for a front-wing change after a crash at the penultimate corner, before being hit with a time penalty for skipping the bollard at the pit entry, and later spinning at Turn 1.

In total, the Briton made six visits to the pitlane and ultimately finished♕ 11th, less than a second behind thඣe final points-paying position taken by Kevin Magnussen.

Reflecting on the race, Hamilton said: “It’s just been a bad day an꧋d a bad weekend. There’s not really much more to say really. It was probably the worst day I’ve had in the office for a long, long timeജ.

“But you l⛄ive and you learn. I don’t really know what happened today to be honest but I’m glad it’s over.

“Me hitting the wall wasn’t helpful and then putting on the slick ty💝res wasn’t helpful with it still raining, so it was just a combination of things.

“We’ve got more races up ahead so we just have to focus on r🥃egrouping and coming back stronger.”

Despite an uncharacteristic error-strewn 💞race, Hamilton has preserved his 39-point lead in the championship over Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas after the Finn crashed o𓄧ut in the closing stages.