"What he said was absolutely factual," acknowledged Sky F1 pundit Martin Brundle. There's been like 43 engines for Mercedes and only mine have gone." "I just can't believe that there's eight Mercedes cars and only my engines are the ones that have gone this way," he told Sky F1 in Malaysia. Hamilton is the team's most powerful asset, any deliberate sleight of hand would have been uncovered in such a forensically-scrutinised operation, and there are easier and more subtle ways of crippling a car than making its engine go bang with 15 laps of a grand prix to go.īut that doesn't explain why Hamilton has suffered the brunt of Mercedes' unreliability this year. While the conspiracy theorists inevitably blew a gasket after Hamilton's Sepang blow-out, the notion Hamilton is the victim of deliberate sabotage can be instantly dismissed.
Lewis Hamilton’s engine fails whist leading the Malaysia GP Hamilton supporters would also argue unreliability accounted for more lost points in Sochi and Singapore, but it's by no means clear the Englishman had a pace advantage over his Mercedes team-mate Rosberg on those weekends. But it could be reasonably argued that it has denied him at least 40 points this year - 12 in China, when Mercedes were a class above the rest, 25 in Sepang, and ten in Belgium when Hamilton was relegated to the back of the grid after Mercedes introduced fresh power units to compensate for his early-season failures. There is, of course, no way of determining how many points Hamilton's 'bad luck' has cost.
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