168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton has raised eyebrows with an intriguing claim that his Ferrari F1 car has a “deficit” compared to teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc’s.

The seven-time world champion’s mixed start 🐓to life at Ferrari continued at the Japanese Grand Prix as he struggled to a lowly seventh-placed finish.

Hamilton’s new teammate Leclerc fared better, qualifying and finishing fourth ahead of the two Mercedes cars, despite Ferrari lacking the pace to challenge the McLarens and168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Max Verstappen’s Red Bull.

After Sunday’s grand prix, Hamilton revealed tha🥂t his car is “underperforming”.

“I’m really hoping in the next race we’ll see hopefully some positive changes,” Hamilton in the Suzuka 🐽paddock.

“Through the first three races there’s been a bit of a deficit between both sides ꩵof the garage on some elements of the car.

“On my side, something is underperforming. It’s good to know. ꩲWith what I had, that is th🌠e best result I could get.”

The 40-year-old Briton is hoping a fix will be found in time f⛦or the next race in Bahr🐼ain.

“We ♈found something on the car that's been underperforming the last three races. I'm really hoping that when that's fixed, I'll start getting a bit better results,” he added.

“I'm losing just over a te𒆙nth a lap with this issue we have. I'm hoping in the next race it's fixed.꧋”

Is set-up choice behind Ferrari deficit?

Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur suggested the performance ga🐻p between Hamilton and Leclerc in Japan was linked to their different set-up choices.

“The balance an🉐d so are linked to their choices," Vasseur said.

“We are still exploring the new car and we are taking differen🦄t directions to suit the drivers.

"I think Bahrain will be a different p🧔icture because we did three days in Bahrain🧸 last month, and we are more in control.”

Vasseur’s commentওs appear to align w♚ith Leclerc’s revelation that he was able to make a breakthrough with a new set-up direction.

“I think I learned ple💛nty about the car t𓄧his weekend, so that is the positive of the weekend really,” Leclerc said.

“꧅As much as we are disappointed with the fourth place, we should be happy of us maximising the result and we should be happy about all the lessons learned this weekend.

“As I said, Friday I think was a really, really good day for that. I really went i🔯n quite extreme directions 📖in an idea that I’ve had since two or three weeks.

“I wanted to try it and it worked out, so I ꦿwas r﷽eally happy with that.”