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Lance Stroll's first race in Formula 1 was brought to a premature end on Sunday when a brake issue forced him to retire from the A🧜ustralian Grand Prix.

Stroll, 18, made his first officialꦜ F1 weekend appꦑearance for Williams on Friday at Albert Park, but suffered a setback in FP3 when he crashed at Turn 10.

While the team was able to fix Stroll's car in time for qualifying, the 🐠Canadian could only finish 19th in Q1, and dropped to last place on the grid following a gearbox penalty.

Stroll made up six places on the opening lap after braking late at Tu𒉰rn 1, and rose up to 13t😼h following the pit stop cycle.

The Williams driver then continued to rack up the laps running in P13, going some way to make up for his difficult🦋ies in pre-season, only to head into the run-off area with a brake issue that forced him to retire with 17 laps to go.

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"Today wꦚe were running a decent race and the pace was pretty good," Stroll said. "I had a good start, which was risky although I didn't plan on it being quite so risky! Some guys braked quite early in front of me and I managed to gain some places, but then I had a fla♕t spot so had to stop early and, strategy-wise, we changed to a two-stop.

"Then we managed to have a surprisingly good r൲ace. It was my first race, and first weekend, so there are a few positives to take out of it.🏅 We had what I believe was a brake disc failure. I just hit the pedal, it went long and I was lucky it was in a place where there was a lot of run-off.

"Unfortunately, that incident yesterday cost us a lot of positions in qualifying, but today I enjoyed myself and so a big ꦫthank you to the team."

Williams chief technical officer Paddy Lowe added: "It is a shame for Lance, who put in a🦹 good first drive with some overtakes in his first race in Formula One, so it is a shame that he then had to retire with a brake failure.

"Clearly that's an issue we need to get on top for the races to come and make sure w🔯e don't have a repeat."

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