Lewis Hamilton has described his performance during Formula 1’s German Grand Prix as “probably the worst day I’ve had fo🥃r a long time”.

Despite battling illness throughout the weekend, Hamilton took advantage of reliability problems for Ferrari during qualifying to claim pol🎃e position, and led the early stages on Sunday until his race began to un𝕴ravel in changeable conditions.

Hamilton had to make an unscheduled stop for a front-wing change after a crash at the penultimate corner, before being hit with a time penalty for skipping the bollard at the pit en🍃try, and later spinning at Turn 1.

In total, the Briton made six visits to the pitlane and ultimately finished 11th, less than a second behind the final points-paying positꦦion taken by Kevin Magnussen.

Refleꦍcting on the race, ♎Hamilton said: “It’s just been a bad day and a bad weekend. There’s not really much more to say really. It was probably the worst day I’ve had in the office for a long, long time.

“But you live and you learn. I don’t really know what happened today to be honest but I’m glad it’s oꦡver.

“Me hitting the wall wasn’t helpful and then putting on the sli♛ck tyres wasn’t helpful with it still raining, so it was just a combination of things.

“We’ve got more races up ahead so we just have to focus on regrouping and coming back stronger.ꦛ”

Despite an uncharacteristic error-strewn race, Hamilton has preserved his 39-point lead in the championship over Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas after the Fi🌜nn crashed out in the closing stages.