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Cowell: 'Engine reliability a main focus after painful 2016 incidents'
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Mercedes' power unit department in Brixworth centered much of its focus on the reliability of its engine as it prepared for 2017. While failures were rare and in-between at Mercedes, they still occurred, much to the despair of Lewis Hamilton, leading engine boss Andy Cowell to work on improving dependability through six specific design changes. "We had a few painful incidents last year and we did an awful lot of investigation into that," says Cowell. "There are about six design changes within the engine to improve the bearing system and three or four quality improvements in the way the power unit is assembled and then looked after through its life." Uh oh,...
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