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 Hamilton said he felt “the least confident” he has with Mercedes’ W15 car after finishing a lowly 18th fa𝕴stest in what he described as being “one of the worst sessions for a long time” in Melbourne.

Hamilton struggled for pace on both qualif൲ying and race simulations and had several offs at Albert Park. He complained over the radio that something felt “wrong” with his 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 and ended Friday sixth in the timesheets🐬.

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

“He loo🍷ked pretty despondent didn’t he?” Chandhok sai🧸d.

“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 compe💯titive, George felt at least, as the weekend 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 between now and the start of FP3 tಌrying a who♌le 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 pace and the McLaren long run looked really strong. W﷽e 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 qu🦩alifying, but it’s going to be a tough weekend to get out of this.”

Fellow Sky pundit Naomi Schiff🥀 added: “Bahrain and Saudi they had t𒈔he same issues on the Friday where they were really complaining.

“Particularly Lewis where he’s not happy with the set-up of the car, a lot of instability on the rear, fighting where they are going to place t💟he 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 las🔯t-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 wayꦺ to have Lewis mor꧟e comfortable in the car.”

Mercedes’ trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin confirm✨ed that Hamilt💜on was not happy with his set-up direction.

“Lewis felt that we had gone in the wrong direction with our changes,” he said. “Fru🍒stratingly, they weren’t quick to unwin🌟d 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. We could have ended a bit higher up the ෴time sheets had he not had a bit of damage.

“Overall♔ though, it’s clear that we’ve got work to do overnight to improve the car.”