Mercedes boss Toto Wolff conceded the set-up experiments conducted by Lewis Hamilton in China backfired.
The seven-time world champion recovered to ninth in Shanghai after starting from a lowly 18th following a disastrous qualifying performance which he blamed on an aggressive set-up experiment.
Hamilton finished second in the sprint race but his fortunes drastically changed in qualifying after revealing he had made “massive changes” to his car. “So I went one way, a long way, and he went the other way, just to see if we can find anything. That’s what we need to do at the moment. But yeah. Didn’t work.”
After the race, Hamilton told his race engineer Peter ‘Bono’ Bonnington: “I won’t make that set-up change again, Bono. That was my bad. Thank you guys, and good job on the pit stops.”"It's not an OK car. We can see what the mistakes are on the car,” Wolff explained.
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