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

Hamilton was already on the back foot at the Red Bull Ring after a gearbox change sp𝕴arked 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 Briton to go straight on at the corner.

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

"It was a problem with the team side of the brak💮e system for Lewis, i.e. not an issue with components supplied to us by a third party," a spokesperson🅠 from the team said.

"The result was a disc failure but not caꦯused by an issue with the disc.

"The relevant parts will be 🌱replaced for๊ qualifying."

✨Due to his grid penalty, Ha𝐆milton can start no higher than sixth in Austria, with qualifying set to start at 1pm BST.