168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton has admitted he “paid the price” at the F1 Chine💫se Grand Prix for making 🍸a “bad set-up change” to his Mercedes car.

The seven-time world champion had an encouraging start to the weekend as he claimed his best result of the season by finishing second to Red Bull’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen in Saturday morning’s sprint.

But just a few hours later Hamilton suffered a𝐆 shock Q1 elimination and could only q⛦ualify 18th for Sunday’s grand prix, before recovering into the points in ninth.

Hamilton, who finished three places behind teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell, conceded that an aggressive set-up c꧒hoice, made after the sprin🦩t, ultimately backfired.

“Ultimately, I made a bad set-up change to the🌳 car [on Saturday] and I paid the price for ෴it. I plan to make sure I don’t do that in the future,” Hamilton said.

“I went forwards and got into the points, but it was a tough race. The car does seem to work in a small window, andꦚ I did think it was the correct thing to do.

“Sadly, it made [the grand prix] very difficult. The team did a great job with the pit stops though and George [Russel🎀l] did well to scorꦇe some solid points.”

The level of understeer ♋Hamilton experienced in the race led him to believe something on his car was broke🌺n.

"I thought maybe at the beginning I tapped someone because I have never had so much understeer in my life, so I was turning in at slow speed an💙d waiting, waiting, waiting," he explained.

"🌌I thought I had damaged somethin🦂g like some of the others because there was debris going everywhere at one point but it was just the set-up that I chose.

"With better decisions on set-up, maybe we would be around ♔where George [Russell, who finished sixth] is but we just hav🌠e to keep fighting."