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Any chance this was part of a back door deal with Hamilton moving to Ferrari Forza?
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Road Racing royalty getting a tour around German HQ today.
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Mercedes technical director James Allison said Lewis Hamilton’s power unit suffered a “catastrophic” failure in Melbourne, though the trigger for it remains unknown.
Asked as part of Mercedes’ Australian GP debrief whether the cause of Hamilton’s engine failure had been discovered, Allison confirmed:
“We do not. “The power units will return to the safe hands of the guys at Brixworth, who will be able to figure out what let go.
“All we know is the symptoms at the time, which was a rapid loss of oil pressure followed by a shutdown of the engine to protect it because when you know you’ve got catastrophic loss like that, the best thing you can do for the future is kill it there and then. And then you have not just got like a load of molten metal.
“You have normally got a fairly clear evidence chain of what caused it. And then that lets you work better for the future.
“So, we do not know yet, Brixworth and HPP will do in short order. And no doubt as soon as we know then they will jump to with their characteristic energy to make sure that any risk that happens on any other engine is mitigated as best we can.”
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