Hamilton was beaten by168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Fernando Alonso’s Aston Martin on his way to finishing as the lead Mercedes driver in fifth a♑s F1 2023 got underway in Bahrain. 🌟;

The seven-time world champion ended up just behind Ferrari’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Carlos Sainz but trailed 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen’s race-winning Red Bull by a staggering 50 𒀰seconds. 

After taking the chequered flag, Hamilton admitted Mercedes have “serious work to do” to catch up to the frontru෴nners in an motivational radio message to his team. 

“Great work, I knoꦰw we’re not where we wanna be but let’s keep pushing,” Hamilton said. “Serious work to do to close the gap but I believe in you all.”

Hamilton earlie🐈r his race eng♋ineer Peter Bonnington: “How much were we off the Red Bulls?”

To which, ‘Bono’ replied: “Just uh… 51 seconds 🦩behind.”

After a disappointing qualifying on Saturday, Mercedes boss Toto Wolff admitted his team had made a mistake in pushing on with the ♛same car concept as last year. 

Hamilton finished two places ahead of teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell, who appeared to have more pace tha🧜n Hamilton in the early stages after initially dropping behind at the start. 

"Is he ﷺ[Hamilton] managing or is he slow? Because I feel I have a bit more pace,” Russell asked over team radio during the first stint. 

Russell’s new race engineer Marcus Dudley confirmed Hamilton was “strug♐gling” at that stage of𝔉 the race.