Lewis Hamilton's latest engine blow-out not only gifted Nico Rosberg a 23-point lead in the title race, but also had the world champion demanding reliability answers from his Mercedes team.' Lewis Hamilton’s engine fails whist leading the Malaysia GPDoes it really only happen to Hamilton?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. 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.But that doesn't explain why Hamilton has suffered the brunt of Mercedes' unreliability this year.' 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.
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'It was a brand new engine. It's just odd. There's been like 43 engines for Mercedes and only mine have gone.' 'What he said was absolutely factual,' acknowledged Sky F1 pundit Martin Brundle.
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'It is difficult to understand.' Even Hamilton's numbers added up: each of the eight cars powered by Mercedes have received the five power units every driver is allowed to use without penalty this season. The remaining three are the trio of fresh units the team brought to Belgium for their lead driver. And one of those has already blown up - with the fear now that the batch introduced at Spa may be plagued by a chronic fault.In short, Hamilton's Sepang blow-out may yet happen again. So why always him?' Could it be installation problems?' Mused Brundle.
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'It's very unlikely because there have been different failures and given the experience, processes and data this would show up quickly.' How about driving style? With the latest seamless shift gearboxes it is impossible to miss a gear or over-rev on downshift.
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If he's bouncing off all the kerbs and putting extra load through the transmission and power plant it would be clear to see in the data.' Which only leaves bad luck - and Hamilton's suggestion that a 'higher power' may be working against him. Given that F1 is important but not that important, it has to be simply a case of bad luck. Lewis HamiltonNico Rosberg1610Total48But measuring bad luck is a complex business. For instance, the above table doesn't take into account the qualifying breakdowns Hamilton suffered midway through the 2014 season when his brakes failed in Germany and his car caught fire in Hungary.And detailing a mechanical glitch can be a multi-layered arrangement. Take Rosberg's grid penalty in Austria, for example, when the German driver was demoted five places after a gearbox change. Mechanical failure? The unit was broken, but only after Rosberg crashed in practice, an accident which in turn was attributed to a suspension failure that may or may not have been caused by Rosberg riding too far over the circuit's notorious sausage kerbs.Nevertheless, it can be stated as fact that Rosberg's car hasn't been completely bullet-proof this year.
His W07 suffered a gearbox glitch late in the British GP, a malfunction which ultimately demoted him from second to third and enabled Hamilton to take the lead of the title race.But while Rosberg hasn't been entirely immune from misfortune this year, there have been none of the clear-cut, high-profile, high-impact bad breaks which have repeatedly beset his team-mate. How fortunate was Rosberg in Malaysia?The world championship leader certainly rode his luck on Sunday. He could have been wiped out of the race at the first turn when his Mercedes collided with Sebastian Vettel. His W07 could have then suffered terminal damage when the rest of the field hurtled into Turn One but somehow avoided hitting the spinning Mercedes. He could have suffered self-inflicted race-ending damage when he barged into the side of Kimi Raikkonen's Ferrari. And although he was then punished by the steward for causing the collision, the punishment - ten seconds of track time - was less than the amount of time Raikkonen, who finished directly behind Rosberg in fourth, lost due to the damage done to the floor of his car. Also See:.Most saliently of all, Rosberg lucked into a 28-point swing when Hamilton retired from the lead.
But for the failure on the other W07, Rosberg would have been second in the standings heading to Japan. Instead he leads by 23 with just five races to go.But bad luck tends to be a fickle interloper. Hamilton has been persistently unfortunate throughout 2016 but there are still 20 other drivers in the field envious of his good fortune to be in the title race. And all it would take for him to regain the lead of the World Championship this weekend in Japan is victory and one piece of very bad luck for Rosberg.
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