Sergey Sirotkin’s Formula 1 debut lasted just three full laps after a sandwich bag blew onto the track and got caught in his Williams car, uꦬltimately causing him to suffer a brake failure that resulted in retirement from the race.

Sirotkin lined up 19th for his first F1 start after a difficult maiden qualifying session, and held position through൲ the ope𝔉ning few laps.

However, the Russian’s race would go no further than Lap 4, with TV cameras showing the Williams being parked in the run-off area at Turn 🌞16.

🥂Speaking to reporters after the race, Sirotkin revealed that a loose sandwich bag had got caught in his right-rear brake duct, causing his car to overheat and ultimately fail.

“You would not believe how clever it was what happened: there was a plastic sandwꦰich bag that ꦏwent into the rear-right brake duct, which was lap three or lap four I suppose,” Sirotkin said.

“That caused massive overheating which caused massive 🌺temperature spikes and it d🍬estroyed all the brakes. At some point I lost the pedal completely - I was lucky there was no wall or nothing there, so the car is still in one piece but I lost the car straight [on].”

Sirotkin did not mince his 𝓡words when looking back on Williams’ weekend, having struggled through both qualifying and the 💃race on Sunday.

“To be honest it’s been a very tough ಞweekend. I’ve been around a little while and up to now it all went exactly as I was pretty much expecting to be going,” Sirotkin said.

“But this weekend was really toug🔯h. It was really something out of what usually happens that we didn’t, or I didn’t, expect. It’s really tough.

“I’m really not happy with the weekend. Today I really hoped for a nice clean race to really learn and build some confidence of what happened, but I could not eve🔯n do this.

“It’s a shame, and a tough mome𝐆nt. But the best thing we can do is forget it, learn it and get the experience from it.”