Sebastian 🦂Vettel has been forced to miss opening practice for the British Gra🍸nd Prix after Ferrari detected an issue with his Formula 1 car.

The four-time world champion completed an installation lap before returning to the Ferrari g🍌arage,🤡 where the team discovered a problem with the intercooler system on Vettel’s SF1000.

Vettel’s car was spotted ♏up on the jacks as Ferrari mechanics investigated the r🧸ear-end, before the team confirmed a full strip down was required, meaning the German will have to sit out the remainder of FP1.

Ferrari hopes to re🍎solve the issue in time for this afternoon’s second practice session at𒀰 Silverstone.

"We have detected something wrong wit𝓡h the intercooler system on Seb’s car so we have to strip the car down and🍸 check, to be ready for FP2”, a Ferrari spokesperson confirmed.

It marks the latest setback for Ferrari, which has endured a w🥃oeful start to the delayed 202ܫ0 season after taking the wrong aerodynamic direction with its latest challenger.

The Italian outfit appears to have slipped into the midfield pack and was anticipating further struggles at Silverstone this weekend while it contin🅰ues to tꦿry and better understand its SF1000 package.

“I think we expect two quite difficult weekends on paper though, b🐷ut I always like to try and be optimistic, so I’ll have the same mindset. going into the weekend, but realistically I think it will be difficult,” Charles Leclerc said ahead of🍌 the weekend.

Vettel added: “I think on paper it is not the track where we should be strongest with the current package that we h🐻ave but then we are here to race, I think I always look forward to be on the grid and what we can do.

“There’s always decisions that need to be taken during the race, strategy and so it doesn’t look like rain for this weekend but we are in the UK so we never know, it’s probably where rain was born! I guess we are the underdog but maybe we can still have a good figh𝓀t.”