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Hamilton qualified eighth in Jeddah for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, on a day when his team-mate George Russell gave the struggling team a boost with fourth place. Both will move up a place on the starting grid due to Charles Leclerc’s penalty.
Asked by Motorsport.com if Russell’s performance had been encouraging, Hamilton said: “Of course, George did a great job. So great, great result for him and he was able to get the car in a different place than me.
“I just struggled to extract the performance from the car. It’s mostly me. And yeah, a little bit in the high-speed the car is a little bit unstable, my set-up.”
Hamilton confirmed he and Russell had diverged on set-up, with the latter also having trialled new parts on Friday.
“It’s a little bit different, yeah,” said Hamilton. “There’s just one particular thing that I did differently, but maybe it’ll be okay for tomorrow. Let’s …