Lewis Hamilton feels “almost helpless at some points” notwithstanding the issues that have hit him this season.
The Mercedes driver qualified tenth for Sunday’s Russian Grand Prix after the repeat of a motor disappointment that put him at the back of the lattice at the past race in China.
He is 36 points behind fellow team member Nico Rosberg, who begins the race from pole.
“The goal is moving further into the distance and there is nothing I can do,” Hamilton said.
The Briton has hit inconvenience in each race so far this season, completing second, third and seventh while Rosberg has taken three triumphs.
In any case, the best on the planet said he was still sure he could turn the season around.
“There is still a long way to go,” he said. “Once again, always trying to turn the negatives into positives.
“It is another big challenge and the challenge is becoming great but every challenge is an opportunity to rise. I quite like that approach and idea.
“Even when it seems like it’s the darkest of days, there is always some light there. That is what is going to power me forward for tomorrow.”
Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff said: “You need to accept that someone who has had multiple situations like this, technical problems, is upset.
“He doesn’t need anyone to build him up. He is very strong. He is going to get over it.
“He is a fighter and he has been in this situation many times in his life and it will have no effect on him, even though at the moment it is clear he is not in the best of moods.”
Mercedes have not yet said how they will take care of the issue in Hamilton’s motor, which was an overheating of the MGU-H, the part of the cross breed framework that recuperates vitality from the turbocharger.
In principle, they are permitted to substitute parts like for like without a matrix punishment yet the circumstance will just turn out to be sure about Sunday morning.
Hamilton said on Saturday evening that he was beguiled with reference to why his Mercedes was abruptly enduring dependability issues after the auto ran inconvenience free in pre-season testing and the initial two races.
“I am very curious as to what is going on so I have asked them to give me as much detail as possible because we did 800km a day in testing and the car was faultless and all of a sudden two times in a row the same thing,” he said.
“That doesn’t happen for us. They say we have understood what happened in the last race and I would have thought we would have learned but obviously not and so more work needs to go in.
“We have another engine going in and who’s to know it’s not going to happen on that one?
“And we’ll have to be careful how we pick out all the other engines in the year because now I have only three for the rest of the year so I am going to have another penalty later in the year at some point.”
He said his underlying center in the race on Sunday would be to maintain a strategic distance from inconvenience at the primary corner – his auto has endured harm in first-corner episodes in each of the three races as such.
“I am just hoping to have a clean first lap and have a car in one piece to be able to fight with people,” Hamilton said.
Rosberg’s other primary adversary, Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel, begins seventh as a consequence of a five-place framework punishment for unapproved gearbox changes.
Rosberg said: “Of course the others have been unfortunate, extremely unfortunate, and that makes my race a little easier tomorrow but an F1 race is never easy. The opposition is still there and still need to stay focused and do the job as well as possible.”
