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

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

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Following thorough iꦡnvestigations, Mercedes has 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 earl🥃ier. 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 ru⛦nning parameters' introduced for all Mercedes engine customers this weekend.

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Though Mercedes does not go into detail about this, it says iꦐt is a 'reactive follow-u꧃p to further questions to include but not limited to a different, more conservative oil specification.