James Allison has confirmed the suspension issue which impacted 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton’s sprint race performance at the 🧸United States Grand Prix “did not feature” o🌌nce the problem was “put to bed” ahead of qualifying.

ﷺHamilton struggled for pace ✃in the sprint event at the Circuit of the Americas on Saturday.

He finished a lacklustre sixth, three seconds behind Mercedes teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell.

After the sprint, Mercedes realised there was an issue w♛ith Hamilton’s car, noti🅺cing a broken bearing.

While it was rectified for qualifying, Hamilton was ultimately knocked out in Q1 before spinning out of the race, capping 🔯off a miserable weekend for the seven-time world champion.

She🦂dding light on how Merceded dealt with the issue in Austin, Allison said on Mercedes’ YouTube channel: “Anyone who watched it on the TV would have heard Lewis saying, “I can feel it clicking.” – “I can feel it clicking”.

“When we stripped the car after the Sprint race, a race in which he struggled to get the cꦫar’s handling to be sweet-natured, we found that one of the bearings that holds one of the wishbones on had started to break up.

“That was making it move around and gඣiving him that clicking noise, which also was associated with inconsistent handling, which is the main reason he was feelin▨g the back end of the car, even though it is a front-end problem. It translates to the car feeling loose and unpredictable and that had an impact on his race in the Sprint.”

Allison confirmed that the issue was ꧟resolved ahead of qualifying and it didn’t resurface again later in the weekend.

“Had we fixed it entirely by qualifying? Yes, we had replaced that part, and that problem did not re-emerge,” Allisoඣnജ added.

“So it was a pain for us to have su♌ffered that problem, difficult for Lewis to then have the Sprint race that way, but that issue was put to bed by qualy and did not feature thereafter.”