Hamilton had to settle with fifth place in the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix but finished over 50 seconds adrift of race-winner168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Max Verstappen, who dominated to lead a Red Bull one-two. 

The seven-time world champion und🔯erline♛d the scale of the challenge Mercedes are facing in a post-race rallying call to his team. 

S🌜peaking later in the pen, Hamilton called for a ‘massive’ push from Mercedes to add downforce to the W14. 

"I gave🎉 it absolutely everything,” Ham𒈔ilton told Sky. 

"I am generally happy with the r𓄧ace. It was much☂ better than Qualifying and I am generally happy in terms of my performance.

"I thought the team did a great job in terms of pit stops and just unfortunately the car is not there aꦦt the moment.

"We are just lacking downforce and we have got to work really hard to 🌱add that ASAP.

"Anything from🦹 in the wind tunnel, we need it tomorr𓆉ow. We have really got to push massively to try and close that gap.

"The Red Bull pace today was obviouslꩵy huge, must have been at least a second a lap.

"But those around us, I think we could catch aℱt some stage.” 

Hamilton lost out in a brilliant tussle with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso, who went on to claim a stun🥃ning podium 💦on his Aston Martin debut. 

The 38-year-old admi𒅌tted there was little more he could have done to have claimed a better result. 

"I really did [enjoy the battle with Fernando]. As a driver, you are always hopi🍒ng that y꧅ou are going forwards, but at least getting a tussle.

"I think today was a much more enjoyable b༒attle I was having out there.

"The star✨t was great, I gained a couple places and got Fernando in Turn 4.

"Then w✅e had that battle and I was also closꦓe with the Ferrari at some stage so there isn't much else I could have done today.

"Set the car up differently maybe? But overall it 🎃is justꦅ lacking performance so we have got to keep working on it."