Hamilton had been on course to finish second comfortably at the Red Bull Ring, running four seconds ahead of Mercede🤡s teammate Valtteri Bottas.

The seven-time champion’s pace 🏅started to drop midway through and he was quickly reeled in by Bottas.

On Lap 52, Bottas was told Ham༒♑ilton would let him through for position.

A lap later, Hamilton surrendered the positi🃏on to Norris, before ma🎐king a second pit stop as he struggled with the rear of his car.

Reflecting on his race, Hamilton told Sky Sports F1: “I already said before the race that it will be very hard to beat Max, of course. Frustrating to lose so much downforce on the rear of the car and ℱnot be able to hold onto second place. A lot of points lost today.

“I wasn’t go🐎🌸ing over the kerbs anymore than anyone else so I have no idea where it happened. There was a lot of damage.”

Ha♍milton trails Max Verstappen 32 points in the drivers’ champio✤nship following the Dutchman’s dominant victory in Austria.

With the British Grand Prix next up, Hamilton conceded that Mercedes has “a lot of🍰 work to do.”

“We are miles away from them,” Hamilton added. “We’ve got a lot of work to do. We need all hands on deck, 🤪which I already know they are and they’ve brought a lot of upgrades clearly over💃 these past few races and we’ve not brought any.

“We’ve got t💫o bring some, find as much performance as possible otherwise th༺is will be the result most often.”

Mercedes confirmed on 🎉Twitter that Hamilton's pace suffered after suffering kerb damage from Turn 10.