Mercedes has rev🐻ealed a 'big-end bearing failure' was to blame for Lewis Hamilton's dramatic exit from the Malaysian Grand Prix 🌌following an engine blow.

The defending champion was leading comfortably in Sepang when hi♔s ICE expired at the start of lap 61 having completed a relativel🍸y meagre 618km since it was first installed.

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Following thorough investigations, Mercedes has revealed a 'big-end beaꦆring 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 Mercedes 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 all 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 fu♊rther questions to include but not limited to a different, more conservative oil specification.