168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton says that his poor Bahrain Grand Prix qualifying display was the result of a set-up change he made to his Mercedes F1 car.

The seven-time world champion led a Mercedes 1-2 in second practice✱ on Thursday, but could only qualify ninth on the grid for Saturday’s season-opener in Bahrain.

Hamilto💖n was 0.225 seconds behind Mercedes teamꦓmate George Russell, who qualified an impressive third behind Red Bull’s three-time world champion Max Verstappen and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc.

“Yesterday George and I were on identical car set-ups and the car was feeling great and then we veered off,” Hamilton said of his diffic൲🌟ult qualifying.

“He went o♉ne way and I went the other. You could say the one I was on was not good on a single lap. I hope that it’s good in the race.”

When asked why he decided on the change, Hamilton replied: “I wasn’t comfortable with my race pace and so ♛I changed the car to hopefully make the race pace better.

“We’ll see tomorrow if that really is the case but trying to find a good balance for the race pace. There’s a lot of degradation with the rears and race pace is really everything here. Obviously positio♔n counts as well.”

It was also put to Hamilton that his ❀car appeared to be bottoming-out a lot, but he insisted it was the same for most drivers.

“I th🎶ink everyone’s was bottoming,” he explained. “I think the ride height was good. I did generally th𒉰ink it was okay. Very, very tough qualifying session.

"It’s amazing to see how 💎close everyone is and I think George’s position is a testament to the job everyone has done at the factory and finally giving us a car that we can fight with.

“I just didn’t utilise that today when I made that set-up change. I put something on the car that we haven’t put on for the last two years and I was hoping it would be o🌠k.

“I decided to stick with it a꧂nd yeah, it wasn’t nice necessarily to drive.”

Despite being disappointed 🌌about his qualifying result, Hamilton is upbeat about Merced🔯es’ chances, believing their revamped W15 is a “real big improvement” on its predecessors.

“The car is really fantastic, it is a real big improvement fr🐎om the previous years,” he said.

“A lot more stable, a lot more fun to drive but we 🧸still have work to do as you can see. But for George to be three tenths off Max, it’s🥂 incredible.

“To know that we have a package that we can potentially fight with is༒ really pleasing.”ꦑ