I returned home with a raised head - Hamilton

In an interview with the German newspaper 'Bild', Lewis Hamilton declared that he did not press the wrong button during the Brazilian GP. The explanation of the Briton comes only days after a journalist of the Canadian newspaper 'La Presse' admitted to wrongly quoting Hamilton last week as declaring that an accidental push of a button on his steering wheel slowed his single seater at Interlagos.

When asked about the gearbox problem, Lewis Hamilton denied pressing the wrong button: "That was a technical problem. I was coasting, even though the read-out said I was in 4th gear. But I am not so stupid as to have put it into neutral myself."

Although Lewis Hamilton should be disappointed about missing out on the title in his debut season with just one point, the youngster remains optimistic: "I returned home (from Brazil) with a raised head because by becoming vice-champion, I have reached so much more than I and everybody else had expected."

Lewis Hamilton has won four races this season and with this equals the record of Jacques Villeneuve who also won four races in his debut season back in 1996. The young Briton also collected 6 pole positions and with all of this he can look back at a successful season.