The Mercedes of Hamilton and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell could only qualify seventh and eighth as they locked out ꦡthe fourth row of the grid for Sunday’s race at Japan. 

Hamilton ended up over a second down on pole sitter 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen, with most of Mercedes’ deficit coming in the first sectoඣr. 

The seven-𓄧time world champio🔯n is certain Mercedes’ issues in the first sector are directly related to their car concept, which he says needs to be changed for 2024. 

♎"Yesterday was a bad day. Each w꧂eekend we are having, out of the three days there is at least one bad day,” Hamilton said. 

"The balance didn't feel great yesterday, we did some changes and good work overnight, and the car ꦍhas felt generally really nice today. The car has been nice to drive through P3, so I've been feeling much more confident.

"Then in qualifying I was giving it everything but that seven-tenth deficit we have in sector one, it's all rear-end. Our car has loads of loa🎀d on the front and not as much as we need on the rear.

"So we're a reall♑y long way down on that and for me it's 100 percent clear its [the] concept and we have got to make sure we change that for next year, which hopefully we will.”

“It’s a steep gap that we❀ have to close for next year but you’ve se🌟en what the Astons done coming into this year, so you can make big steps. 

“You’ve seen what the McL♎arens have done this year by going down the Red Bull route, they are now ahead of us on a trackꦇ like this."

Hamilton did manage to put an end to a run of three consecu🥃tive qualifying defeats to Russell since F1 returned from the summer break. 

"I gave it everything I could, I was happy with my laps, they were just no🌜t that🐬 quick compared to others,” he explained. 

“Even though the car is diffi💮cult to drive with the rear-end, it’s stil𓆉l an enjoyable lap. 

“I think I was three and a half tenths up on George and for a track like this, that’s pretty 🅘decent. I just hope for a better race tomorrow.”