Mercedes revealed new details about Russell's departure.

      After George Russell's retirement in Canada, Mercedes' technical director James Allison stated that the cause was a battery failure. Now, the team's deputy principal, Bradley Lord, has provided more details and explained that the team does not know why exactly the battery failed, and it will take several months to determine the cause.

      "You always have mixed feelings when you know that one car won the race while another retired not due to the driver's fault," Bradley Lord said on the Silver Arrows Radio Show podcast. "It's very hard to truly celebrate a victory when so many points have been lost.

      There is absolutely no blame on George. He performed brilliantly throughout the weekend and I think he would have been a very deserving winner after such a performance, during which he secured two poles and won the sprint.

      At the entrance to Turn 8, the ERS system on his car suddenly failed, which then led to quite serious collateral damage. We brought the car back and were able to extract the module from it. It had to undergo a series of special safety procedures before it needs to be sent back to the UK.

      It will take several months before the equipment returns to us. We will have to study the data very carefully to understand what exactly went wrong and then determine how to prevent such an issue from occurring in other modules in the future."

      Evan Short, the head of the engineering department responsible for the car's electrical work on track, added that there were no signs of an impending failure in the telemetry.

      "When we looked at the data, we saw a sudden cessation of all those wavy lines on the graphs we monitor," Short explained. "Of course, the first thought was that something happened to my laptop. Then I looked around and realized that there was no data at all for anyone.

      Since we usually do not monitor the live television broadcast, this was the first sign that something unusual had happened. And only after shifting my gaze to the screen did I see that the car had come to a slow stop.

      As Bradley said, there are many specialists currently studying this data carefully. Although the equipment has not yet returned to us, I am confident that there will be certain clues in the telemetry data from the seconds leading up to the failure."