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Did Hamilton press the wrong button?

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22/10/2007

A usually reliable source tells Pitpass that it was not a transmission glitch which caused Lewis Hamilton to slow on Lap 8 of yesterday's Brazilian Grand Prix, thereby virtually ending his championship hopes, but a mistake by the driver himself.

Our source claims that Hamilton caused his gearbox to fail by touching the wrong button (the Start button). As a result he had to reload the system/software. Earlier in the race, another mistake saw the Englishman go wide, losing several positions, as he attempted to make up for a poor start.

Previously, team boss Ron Dennis claimed that the gearbox fault was a team error: "There was an incorrect command given to the system," Dennis told reporters. "That fault, why did the system get an incorrect command, we don't know yet. It could be a sensor."

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