Lewis H🌼amilton has shrugged off any theories💜 of Mercedes favouring Nico Rosberg by reiterating his belief in his team ahead of the Japanese Grand Prix.

Focusing on bouncing back at Suzuka, a race he's won for the past two years, Hamilton feels he was happy with his performance in Malaysia and aside from the pa🔴in of being denied the win by engine failure he hasn't dwelled on the disappointment.

Mercedes has revealed its explanation for Hamilꦚton's dramatic exit at Sepang as a 'big-end failure' w🌠hen his ICE unit expired despite its relatively low mileage.

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In the immediate fallout after Malaysia Hamilton stated 'someone doesn't want me to win' w🌜ith reference to a higher power that led to speculation someone was working against Hamilton but this has been rebuked by the British driver.

Hamilton says the higher power referred to G𒅌od 🐓and he has full faith in his Mercedes team having claimed back-to-back F1 world titles.

"It doesn't change, nothing has changed," Hamilton said. "ꦅIt appears currently the guy above doesn't really want me to win right now but I have made a point on my Instagram so I don't really have much more to say about it.

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"They [the fans] have the right to their ow☂n opinions but as you've seen from my post you see how passionate I am about this team and my guys.

"I've not been thinking about the last race. Usually when I leave a race I think about a lot of other things going on. I was in Tokyo enjoying my time, it is one of my three favourite cities in the worꦉld. [In Sepang] It was good, I was happy with my performance and hope I can continue like that here."

After his forced retirement at Sepang Hamilton has slipped to 23 points behind team-mate Nico Rosberg in the F1 world drivers' championship w🐠ith five races remaining.

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