Mercedes F1 engineer Andrew Shovlin says the team is concerned by how much time they were losing in the high-speed corners in Saudi Arabia - conceding 🔯it could be a problem in Australia as well♎.

The Brackley-based outfit endured a frustrating race at the Jeddah Corniche Circuit as they finished sixth with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell and ninth with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton.

Mercedes were considerably weak in the f🅰irst sector which consists of high-speed, sweeping corners.

This was most notable when Hamilton was following 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris in the latter part of Saturday's race.

The seven-time world champion would be within 0.5s going into the first corner,♍ then Norris would break the one-second DRS gap.

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has already said that t𝓰heir current car haꦺs a “fundamental” issue which they don’t yet understand.

Speaking after the race, Shovlin, who is their trackside engineeri🌳ng director, gave his  view on the situation for Mercedes.

"We've not performed well this weekend,” he said. “Our high-speed performance has been𝕴 weak, and the car is bouncing in those corners.

“That contributed to our poor qualifying but al🃏so meant we couldn't challenge Aston Martin and the McLarens in the race.

“We were los🍷ing so much time in sector one that we spent the rest of the lap clawing it back.”

The next two races in Australia and Japan are high-speed circuits, meaning Mercedes could be set for another couple of difficult weekends if they can’t fix꧑ their weaknesses.

"Overall, it has been a very frustrating weekend but ultimately one of our own making,” he added. “We've seen glimpses of stron꧅g🔯 performance, but it's not been easy to land the set-up in the right place and we've clearly got some weaknesses that still need ironing out.

“We are going to have to work hard between now and Melbourne to improve. The tracks are sim✨ilar and we don’t want another weekend like this one.”