Lewis Hamilton has demanded answers from his in the aftermath retiring from the Malaysian Grand Prix, a race he comfortably led before his Mercedes engine burst into flames, while team chairman Niki Lauda shares the champion’s grief but insists there is no foul play.
Hamilton watched the final stages of the race at Sepang from the pit garage as his title rival and teammate Nico Rosberg recovered from a first lap incident, to finish third and increase his world championship lead to 23 points over the Briton.
Hamilton made it quite clear that he wants answers, “My question is to Mercedes. We have so many engines made for drivers, but mine are the only ones failing this year. Someone need to give me some answers because this is not acceptable.”
But team chairman Niki Lauda, who was instrumental in convincing Hamilton to move away from McLaren to Mercedes, is adamant there is no conspiracy, “I am really upset about myself and my organisation because we should not let him down with an engine failure.”
“It was a fairly new engine, it was not old in the car. What went wrong I do not know and we will work to correct it.”
“I am taking him to Japan tomorrow in my plane. I hope I can bring him up. The championship is over when the last race is over, 23 points is a lot but you never know.
“We have done nothing against Lewis. We have people working for him, we are proud of him and these things happen,” added Lauda.
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