The seven-time world champion accidentally struck the button - which alters bra🌼ke bias - as he attempted to snatch the lead from Red Bul♑l’s Sergio Perez at the restart of the race in Baku.

Hamilton's front-left tyre locked up under braking for Turn 1 and he subsequently shot dow♍n the escape roa🅠d, dropping him out of the points and down to 15th, where he would go on to finish.

Hamilton suggested after the race that he had mistakenly re-activated the ‘brake magic’ but🧔ton 💙Mercedes has incorporated onto its steering wheel, something which was later confirmed by the team.

The sy🦹stem is used to help the drivers to generate tyre temperature ahead of key moments such as a Safety Car restart or standing start.

Mercedes revealed it would be looking at ways to address the problem and ahead of th🐻is weekend’s French Grand Prix, Hamilton conf🧸irmed that a “short-term” solution had been introduced.

“We haven't moved it, we've just put a shroud around itꦐ jus𒅌t to make sure that you can't accidentally touch it in future, but that’s for the short-term,” Hamilton explained.

“Obviously with the wheel, it’s not so easy to change or to move buttons, beca⛎use it’s all designed in [a certain way]. So, we'll look for a longer term solution probably in the future.”

Hamilton said he did not consider the restart issue to be a mistake and insisted it w꧒as not down to pressure from main championship rival Max Verstappen.

“Max wasn’t in the rac𒈔e at the time, so it definitely wasn't under pressure fro🤪m Max!” Hamilton said.

“And I don't even count it as a mistake. I don’t know wh🦋at the one before that was. But I 🥃don’t feel any pressure, I feel pretty relaxed and you can’t always be perfect.

“A mistake is when you drive of🎶f the track through missing your braking point or hitting the wall.

“It was a kind of unforced error, but it’s something we had that was sitting there that could have happened at any point and it unfortunately ꧑bit us pretty hard. Bu🐎t we learned from the experience and we move forwards.”