Hamilton slipped from fifth to seventh as he was beaten by 🌠McLaren’s Lando Norris and Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso in Sunday’s grand prix as he finished one place ahead of Mercedes teammate Georgꦕe Russell. 

It was a lacklustre performance from Mercedes after the team showed encouraging signs of progress in recent races following a major upgrade thওat was introduced in Monaco. 

Sky F1’s Ted Kravitz reported during the race that Hamilton was struggling with a brake issue, but the seven-time world champion denied this was the ca🌄se. 

“There wasn’t a problem. What problem?” a confusedꩲ-looking🍰 Hamilton asked. 

Hamilton added: “There was nothing wrong wi�💟�th the car. The car was fine.”

Asked i𓂃f it was just p💫erformance-related, Hamilton responded: “Yup.”

Hamilton admitted to being surprised by Lando Norris’ pace in his upgraded 🔜McLaren and sa🧸id the Red Bull Ring highlighted the work Mercedes still have to do to improve their underperforming car. 

“McLaren and Lando did a great job today, McL🧜aren were super quick,” he said. 

"Wasn’t expecting them to be as fast as they were but we weren’t🐬 expecting to be as slow as we were either.

“This track just high𓂃lighted some areas for us to work on. Not the greatest of days.

“The way the car felt doesn’t surprise me.”