A “question mark” has been raised about 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton and his old team Me🔜rcedes ahead of the F1 Chinese Grand Prix.

Hamilton had a Ferrari debut to forget last weekend at the 2025 season-opening Australian Grand Prix, finishing 10th, two places beh𝓀ind teammate Charles Leclerc.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Mercedes soare﷽d to third and four🤪th via George Russell and Andrea Kimi Antonelli respectively.

However, the race in Australia was a chaotic affair in wet conditions which means there are unanswered questions about the F1 pecking order.

“♛We haven’t had a chance to see where Ferrari sit within the top four,” Bernie Collins told the Sky F1 podcast.

“We are still🔯 not sureﷺ after Australia, because of what happened in qualifying and the wet race.

“It should look stronger, at least. Tꦺhey shouldn’t be finishing eighth and tenth, for sure.

“They will have learnಞed a lot communication-🀅wise from the first race. There was a lot going on there.”

Hamilton and his new race engineer Riccardo Adami found comm♛unication challenging in their first grand pri𒆙x together.

Hamilton repeatedly said “leave me to it”, which Martin Brundle called🌺 “angsty”.

The relation💜ship between Hamilton and Adami must improve heading into their second outing together in China if they are to out-pace Mercedes.

“China is a different track in d🍰ifferent temper𒁃atures and tyre compounds,” Collins said.

“It🌜 looks like a dry weekend. It looks warm for China althougꦦh the forecast changes.

“It is going to play to different strengthꦍs. We should see them move up.

“The q✤uestion mark for me i🧸s: ‘are they faster than Mercedes or not?’

“♑Hopefully we get an answer by Saturday. They haܫve got two gos at a qualifying session.”

'Difficult' Chinese GP for rookies

The F1 Chinese Grand Prix is a sౠprint race weekend, meaning a different schedule is in 🐠place.

This could play havoc for the six rookie drivers on the🃏 grid - several of whom endured an opening weekend to forget in Australia, largel✅y because of the wet conditions.

They must now seamlessly adapt to a different schedule in China - one practice session then sprint qualifying on Friday, the sp🔴rint race then qualifying for the grand prix on Saturday, then the grand prix on Sunday.

“It is really difficult,” Collins warned.

“Last year was particularly difficu🌺lt in Chinꦛa because we hadn’t been since 2019.

“This year, they will have last year’🐠s data t💃o look at.

“From a rookie po𒈔int of view, there is a lot of 🍸driving before you hit the main qualifying and the main race.

“There are less engineers playing with setups, like ♉on a normal weekend.

“Yes, you are straight into a compet𝓡itive session which is diffi𒉰cult.

“But you shꦯould have more track time by the time you get to qualifying on Saturday afternoon, and the race on Sunday.”