Lewis Hamilton suffered a fresh setback in final practice for the Ausꦏtrian Grand Prix on Saturday morning when he suffered a brake🐽 disc failure on his Mercedes Formula 1 car.

Hamilton was alre💙ady on the back foot at the Red Bull Ring after a gearbox change sparked a five-place grid drop for the race, only to then hit more🎉 trouble in FP3.

Heading into the heavy braking zone at Turn 3, Hamilton's front-right brake encountered a problem that made it exude plumes of black smoke and caused the B🧸riton to go straight on at the corner.

Hamilton nursed his car back to the pits where Mercedes then conducted a full invest𝔉igation into the problem, finding that his front-right brake disc had failed.

"It was a problem with the team side of the brake system for Lewis, i.e. not an issue with components supplied to us by a third part🅠y," a spokespers💧on from the team said.

"The result was a disc failure but𓆏 not caused by an issue with the disc.

"The relevant parts willಌ be🐟 replaced for qualifying."

Due to his grid penal𝄹ty, Hamilton can start no higher than sixth in Austria, with qualifying set to start at 1pm BST.