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		</div><p>Mercedes dismissed suggestions of sabotage to Lewis Hamilton&#8217;s car as &#8220;ridiculous and stupid&#8221; after another engine failure robbed the world champion of certain victory in Sunday&#8217;s Malaysian Grand Prix.</p>
<p>A furious Hamilton, who now trails rival Nico Rosberg by 23 points in the title race, stoked the flames of a conspiracy theory by claiming &#8220;someone doesn&#8217;t want me to win&#8221;, while also demanding answers from Mercedes.&#8221;</p>
<p>But on a dramatic day at a sweltering Sepang, Hamilton later insisted he was referring to a &#8220;higher power&#8221;, and not turning on the team with whom he has won two successive titles.</p>
<p>&#8220;I know Lewis very well, and he will not accuse the team,&#8221; Mercedes non-executive chairman Niki Lauda said on Sunday night. &#8220;This is an interpretation I cannot accept.</p>
<p>&#8220;I personally feel very sorry &#8211; I am responsible for the engine and team &#8211; and I apologise to him. We do not know the cause. But he has won two championships with us. How can you say we sabotage it? It&#8217;s completely ridiculous and stupid.&#8221;</p>
<p>Hamilton was on course to cruise to the 50th victory of his career, but with 15 laps remaining his engine blew up to hand victory to Daniel Ricciardo.</p>
<p>Max Verstappen followed the Australian home to seal Red Bull&#8217;s first one-two finish in nearly three years, while Rosberg, who fought back from last position following a first-corner collision with Sebastian Vettel, finished third.</p>
<p>Although Hamilton, whose title defence has been plagued by a number of engine failures, later insisted he had &#8220;100% faith&#8221; in his team, his comments in the immediate aftermath of his retirement hinted at a suggestion of foul play.</p>
<p>&#8220;Something or someone doesn&#8217;t want me to win this year,&#8221; Hamilton told BBC Radio 5 Live. &#8220;We are fighting for the championship and only my engines are failing. It does not sit right with me.&#8221;</p>
<p>Hamilton then told his team he would be cancelling his subsequent session with the written media, only to have a change of heart following a meeting with members of the Mercedes hierarchy.</p>
<p>On the surface, it appeared like an attempt to limit the damage caused by his earlier remarks.</p>
<p>&#8220;Mercedes have built 43 engines &#8211; with the extra three that I have had &#8211; and I have happened to have most, if not all, of the failures,&#8221; Hamilton said.</p>
<p>&#8220;That is definitely a tough thing, but I have 100% confidence in these guys. I have been with them for four years, and I have 100 per cent faith.&#8221;</p>
<p>Hamilton also moved to clarify his comment in which he said &#8221;someone doesn&#8217;t want me to win this year&#8221;. Pointing upwards, Hamilton, deeply religious, insisted he was referring to God.</p>
<p>&#8221;It feels right now that the man above or a higher power is intervening a little bit,&#8221; he added. &#8220;If, at the end of the year, the higher power does not want me to be champion I will have to accept that.&#8221;</p>
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