Karun Chandhok believes 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton “looked pretty despondent” following Friday practice at the F1 Australian Grand Prix.

Seven-time world champion H💟amilton said he felt “the least confident” he has with Mercedes’ W15 car after finishing a lowly 18th fastest in what he described as being “one of the worst sessions for a long time” in 🌞Melbourne.

Hamilton struggled for pace on both qualifying and race simulations and had several offs at Albert Park. He complained over the radio that something felt “wrong” with h🐓is W15 challenger.

In contrast, Hamilton’s Mercedes teammate168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: George Russell had a smoother day and𓄧 ended Friday sixth in t🦩he timesheets.

Speaking on the Sky F1 show, ex-racer⛎-turned-pundit Chandhꦐok felt Hamilton’s body language after FP2 was telling.

“He looked pretty despondent ꦗ🍰didn’t he?” Chandhok said.

“It made me think of a comment George Russell made ෴after Jeddah. Two weekends in a row, they seem to have started the weekend well and then progressively got less competitive, George felt at least, as the w𓄧eekend unfolded.

“On this occasion with Lewis it seems like they’ve started on the back foot today. But they’ll have the race support team running the simulator beᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚtween now and the start of FP3 trying a whole load of set-up options.

“They’ll have information from George’s car. But it’s going to be a challenge. Looking at the long run pacℱe and the McLaren long run looked really strong. We expect Ferrari and Red Bull to be there.

“So all of a sudden, they are now looking at between seventh and 10th. Lewis was 18th today! I don’t think it’s going to be 18th when it comes to qualifying, but i♛t’s going to be a tough weekend to get out of this.”

Fellow Sky pundit Naomi Schiff add❀ed: “Bahrain and Saudi they had the same issues on the Friday where they were re📖ally complaining.

“Particularly Lewis where he’s not hap🎃py with the set-up of the ca♎r, a lot of instability on the rear, fighting where they are going to place the ride height to give him a more comfortable ride.

“The problem is they are going into Saturday unconfident with where they are going. They are making a call last-minute on the set-up and unfortunately it seems it is costing them in qualifying and they 🐠🔥are therefore having to work their way back up on a Sunday.

“It is something they are going to have to work around and try to find a way to haꦚve Lewis more comfortable in the car.”

Mercede🐻s’ trackside engineering directo♈r Andrew Shovlin confirmed that Hamilton was not happy with his set-up direction.

“Lewis felt that we had gon๊e in the wrong direction w🎉ith our changes,” he said. “Frustratingly, they weren’t quick to unwind so he had to live with that throughout the session.

“George found the car a bit trickier in the windier conditions of FP2 compared to earlier in the day. We𓆉 could have ended a bit higher up the time sheets had he notജ had a bit of damage.

“Ovಞerall though, it’s clear that we’ve got work to do overnightꦬ to improve the car.”