Lewis Hamilton says he needs replies from Mercedes after engine disappointment cost him triumph at the Malaysian Grand Prix and extremely marked his title trusts.
The disappointment was the most recent in an arrangement for Hamilton, who is 23 focuses behind team-mate Nico Rosberg with five races to go and 125 focuses still accessible.
“We have so many engines for eight drivers and mine are the only ones failing,” said the Briton.
“Someone has to give me some answers because it is just not acceptable.”
Hamilton said: “To be fighting for the championship and only my engines are failing just doesn’t sit right with me.
“There have been many decisive races but this is definitely one of those. Something or someone doesn’t want me to win this year but I won’t give up. I will keep pushing.”
Asked later to clarify what he meant by “someone”, Hamilton said: “A higher power. It feels right now as if the man above or a higher power is intervening a little bit. But I feel I have been blessed with so many opportunities. So I have to be grateful for those. While this does not feel great, I have to remain grateful.”
Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff said: “It’s clear he is super-frustrated. He has been really unfortunate this year. He is losing many points but the championship is not over yet.
“I am so gutted for Lewis. He was in control of that race. Not good.”
Hamilton dropped 43 focuses behind Rosberg after the initial four races, in expansive part in view of two indistinguishable engine disappointments in qualifying in back to back races in China and Russia that constrained him to begin down the grid.
Hamilton battled back with six wins in the following seven races to take a 19-point lead into the mid year break. Rosberg overwhelmed in Singapore, where an unwell Hamilton completed third, to take an eight-point lead. Hamilton looked set to retake the title lead in Malaysia just for his engine to fall flat. Hamilton needed to begin from the back of the grid in the wake of taking new engines to supplant the ones that had fizzled before in the year, and a terrible begin from post position prompted Hamilton completing second to the German at the following race in Italy. He said: “I’m just going to try to recollect myself and get myself together for the next race and try to perform as I did this weekend.”
