Mercedes has revealed a 'big-end bearing failure' was 🌱to blame for Lewis Hamilton's dramatic exit from the Mal🌌aysian Grand Prix following an engine blow.

The defending champion was leading comfortably in Sepang when his ICE expired at the starꦡt of lap 61 having completed a relatively meagre 618km since it was fi🦄rst installed.

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Following thorough investigations, Mercedes h꧙as revealed a 'big-end bearing failure' caused the engine to blow, preceded by a loss of oil pressure at Turn 15 (the final corner) only seconds earlier. Prior to this Merc🃏edes says it had no warning the engine was about to let go.

As a result, Mercedes will introduce safeguards this weekend as it continues to understand what led to the failure, with 'revised running parameters' introduced🔴 for 𝓡all Mercedes engine customers this weekend.

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Though Mercedes does not go into detail about this, it says it is a 'reactive follow-up to further questions to include but not limited to a different, more conservat🦩ive oil specifi♍cation.