Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton says he is ready for a “serious challenge” during the remainder of the Ei🐻fel Grand Prix after Friday practice was scrapped.

Poor weather conditions and low-lying fog resul🍨ted in both 90-minute practice sessions being delayed, and then ultimately abandoned, due to the medical helicopter being unable to fly to the nearest hospital.

The double cancellation meant that drivers were 🐻unable to get in any running around the Nurburgring during F1’s first visit to the German venue in seven years.

With conditions forecast to be particularly cold🐓 and wet for the entirety of the weekend, world championship leader Hamilton is braced for a challenging weekend ahead.

Asked if Friday’s disruption makes for a more exciting weekend, Hamilton replied:𓄧 “Definitely, espe🎃cially if it stays like this.

“Hopefully with cl💦earer skies, but in the wet, it definitely makes it a serious challenge with less prac▨tice, so I look forward to that.

“It’s definite🔯ly frustrating to miss out on days like this,” he added. “We probably wouldn’t have got a lot of running in, because we are limited on tyres and it’s probably going to stay like this all weekend.

“But I would have loved to have gone out, even just for an insꦑtall lap. But with the helicopter, we’ve been grounded. Everyone is in the same boat.”

Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bott✃as expressed his frustration on missing out on vital running and stressed that both he and the team will need to be efficient to ensure they extract the most out of the weekend’s sole-remaining practice session on Saturday morning before qualifying.

“It’s a bit of 🐭a day wasted,” Bottas explained. “So we need♎ to be really efficient with what we do in practice three tomorrow.

“Obviously we had to change the original plan as today was compromised, so we will really need to make the most of it in terms of short runs for the qualifying and long runs to gather data fo🌱r the race.

“As a driver, you need to be quick to pick up 🍸on things and be e𒁏fficient.”