Valtteri Bottas caused the third and final practice session at the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix to be red-flagged, after he "lost" the brake pedal in his Cadillac.
The Finnish driver went off at Turn 10 with just over 25 minutes of the session to run, in what at first looked like a bizarre mistake as he became beached in the gravel trap.
However, the 10-time grand prix winner soon confirmed that his MAC-26 had experienced a significant problem, with it ending his practice running at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.
"I lost my brake pedals. It's gone. Like, the pedal is gone," he told Cadillac over team radio. "I got very lucky."
The fledgling American-based squad has had to overcome various build issues across its debut F1 season, and the team also experienced brake problems in Monaco, too.
Bottas has looked a shade off team-mate Sergio Perez this season, but it has since been established that there have been irregularities with his car and power unit, which has put him on the back foot.
He has, however, had the edge over his team-mate so far in Spain, and has been around a couple of tenths quicker than the Mexican.
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