Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has explained the issue that caused168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Max Verstappen’s retirement at the F1 Australian Grand Prix.

Verstappen lost the lead on the second lap to Ferrari’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz before a dramatic and unusual mechanical problem brought his rac🦂e to a premature end two laps later.

Smoke ꦕstarted to pour from the rear of Verstappen’s Red Bull and the Duꦬtchman limped back to the pits as he suffered his first DNF for two years.

"It's a brake issue and it looked like it was on since the start of the race which is why Max described it as like having a handbrake,”🐠 Horner told Sky.

“That caused him to have a c🍬ouple of moments as the heat was buil🌳ding and building and the result is a fire.

“We’ve got all the bits back now and we will go through the damage and understand exactly what's ca🔥us꧋ed it.”

Verstappen was visibly frustrated when he got out of his R🐠B20 as he saw hisꦯ early championship lead shrink to just four points.

"A driver is always going🃏 to be frustrated when they get out of th😼e car from a retirement,” Horner added.

“He's b🦩een very, very gracious with the team. That DNF hurts everyone in the same way. It's a matter of learni🐼ng from it and understanding what caused it.

"Remarkable after three races he's still leading the World Cham𒁃pionship even🥀 with that DNF. A lot of lessons learned today.”

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez could🦹 not win in his teammate’s absence but Horner revealed the Mexican was hampered by damage sustained to his car.

"He's probably not aware from iဣt but he picked up some damage and lost a significant amount of downforce from the floor of the car when he passed Fernando,” he explained.

"As soon as you get that, your tyre deg gets worse. We were just not good at the end of the stints, which is an unusual trait for our cars. We💮 need to understand that.

"I have to congratulate Carlos Sainz today after going through surgery. What a great performance by h🦋im and his Ferrari team today."