Lewis Hamilton suffered a fresh setback in💝 final practice for the Austrian Grand Prix on Saturday morning when he suffered a brake d♒isc failure on his Mercedes Formula 1 car.

Hamilton was already on the back foot at the Red Bull Ring a🗹fter a gearbox cha♔nge sparked 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 corn🍌er.

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

"It was a problem 💫with the team side of the brake system for Lewis, i.e. not𓆉 an issue with components supplied to us by a third party," a spokesperson from the team said.

"The result was a disc fail𓂃ure but not caused by an 💫issue with the disc.

"The relevant parts will be repl🌱aced for qualifying."

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