05/10/2007
NEWS STORY
Speaking to reporters at Shanghai, ahead of his all-important meeting with the race stewards, Lewis Hamilton has said that he did nothing wrong in Japan last weekend, and warned that continued victimisation could lead him to reconsider his future in F1.
"I had a good weekend, I didn't put a foot wrong," he told reporters this morning. "I didn't do anything to put anyone else in danger. I've come away to China and all of a sudden I'm going to be punished for something.
"I just think it's a real shame for the sport," he continued, "Formula One's supposed to be about hard, fair competition, and that's what I've tried to do this year, just be fair."
Though he might not face sanction, there is a chance that the Englishman could be punished, the very worst scenario being that he is excluded from the results of last weekend's race. After all the drama of the spy saga the Englishman feels he might be forgiven for feeling that he is being victimised.
"There's been some real strange situations this year where I'm made to look the bad person and, by the looks of it, this weekend be given a penalty," he said. "If this is the way it's going to keep going it's not somewhere I really want to be."