Mercedes F1 engineer Andrew🤪 Shovlin says th🌜e team is concerned by how much time they were losing in the high-speed corners in Saudi Arabia - conceding it could be a problem in Australia as well.

The Brackley-based outfit endured a frustrating race at the Jeddah Corniche Circuit as they finished sixth with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell and ninth with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton.

Mercedes were considerabꦛly weak in the first sector which consists of high-speed,🐲 sweeping corners.

This was most notable when Hamilton was following 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris in the latter part of Saturday's race.

The seven-time world champion would♎ be𝐆 within 0.5s going into the first corner, then Norris would break the one-second DRS gap.

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has already said that t🧸heir current car has a “fu𝐆ndamental” issue which they don’t yet understand.

Speaking after the race, Shovlin, who is their trackside engineering di🌊rector, gave 🎶his  view on the situation for Mercedes.

"We've not performed well this weekend,” he said. “Our high-speed performance has been weak, and the car is bouncing in those corneꦚrs.

“That contributed to our poor💖 qualifying but also meant we cou🔜ldn't challenge Aston Martin and the McLarens in the race.

“We were losing so much time in sec🅷tor one that we spent the rest of the lap🐻 clawing it back.”

The next two races in 💜Australia and Japan are high-speed circuits, meaning Mercedes could be set for another couple of difficult weekends if they can’t fix their weaknesses.

"Overall, it has been a very frustrating weekend but ultimately one of our own making,” he added. “We've seen glimpses of strong performance, but it's not been easy to land the set-up in the right place and we've clea𝔍rly got some weaknesses that still need ironing ou꧙t.

“We are going to have to work hard between now and Melb🧸ourne to improve. The tracks are similar and we don’t want anothꦓer weekend like this one.”