Mercedes has revealed a 'big-end bearing failure' was to blame for Lewis Ham🦋ilton's dramatic exit from the Malaysian Grand Prix following an engine blow.

The defending champion was leading comfortably in Sepang when his ICE eꦿxpired at the start of lap 61ꦺ having completed a relatively meagre 618km since it was first installed.

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Following thorough investigations, Mercedes has revealed a 'big-end bearing failure' caused the engine to blow, prece🤪ded by a loss of oil pressure at Turn 15 (the final cor🌳ner) 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' inꦉtroduced for all Mercedes engine customers this weekend.

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Thou𝓡gh Mercedes does not go into detail a꧟bout this, it says it is a 'reactive follow-up to further questions to include but not limited to a different, more conservative oil specification.