Hamilton was beaten by168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Fernando Alonso’♐s Aston Martin on his way to finishing as the lead Mercedes driver in fifth as F1 20ꦐ23 got underway in Bahrain. 

The seven-time world champion ended up just behind Ferrari’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz but trailed 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen’s race-winni🦹ng Red Bull by a staggering 50 seconds. 

After taking the chequered flag, Hamilton admitted Mercedes have “serious work to do” to catch up to the frontr🅺unners in an motivational radio message to his team. 

“Great work, I know we’re not where we wanna be but let’s keeꦫp pushing,” Hamilton said.🤡 “Serious work to do to close the gap but I believe in you all.”

Hamilton e꧟arlier his race engineer Peter Bonnington: “How much were we off the Red Bulls?”

To which𓂃, ‘Bono’ replied: “Just uh… 51 seconds behind.”

After a disappointing qualifying on Saturday, Mercedes boss Toto Wolff admitted his team had made a mistake in pushing on with th💟e same car conceꦇpt as last year. 

Hamilton finished two places ahead of teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell, who appeared to have 𝄹more pace than Hamilton in the early stages after initially dropping bജehind at the start. 

"Is he [Hamilton] managing or is he slow? Because I feel I have a bit mo😼re pace,” Russell asked over team radio during the first stint. ꦇ;

Russell’s new race engineer Marcus Dudley confirmed Hamilton was “struggling” at that stage of the race. ♏;