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Lewis Hamilton: I can still clinch world title

Britain's Lewis Hamilton is confident he can still win the world championship despite suffering a setback at the Chinese Grand Prix.

Hamilton was forced to retire on lap 31 in Shanghai and could only watch on as his McLaren team-mate and rival Fernando Alonso cut his lead from 12 points to four with his second-place finish.Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen is seven points off Hamilton in the race for the title after his victory in China set-up a three-way showdown at the final race of the season in Brazil in two weeks' time.
Hamilton remains upbeat of becoming the first driver to clinch the championship in his debut season and said after his retirement: "We've still got one more race to go. Don't worry, I can still do it."
Well-worn weather tyres forced Hamilton to slide off the track just as he was coming in to the pit lane and he said: "I was having a great race and we didn't know whether it was going to rain or not.
"The tyres I was on were getting worse and worse and in the end I could almost see the canvas underneath.
"Coming in to the pits it was like ice. I couldn't do anything about it. My mirrors were dirty, I couldn't see the tyres but it felt like they were completely finished.
"I was coming in on that lap so it could have worked out perfectly. I'm sorry for the team, they did a fantastic job as always."
Hamilton said he was disappointed to have made his first mistake of the season but is focused on finishing his debut campaign on a high note in Brazil.
He said: "When I got out of the car I was just gutted because I hadn't made a mistake all year and to do it on the way to the pits is not something I usually do. But you can't go through life without making mistakes.
"I'm over it, now we look on to Brazil."
Alonso says he must do something "dramatic" if he is still to overcome Hamilton to land his third successive title.
"It's a very difficult championship because I know it will not be easy to take four points off Lewis. The performance will be, I hope, very similar between the two of us all weekend.
"Hopefully I can do a good race, but for the championship I still have to do something really dramatic if I want to win."
Raikkonen is looking forward to the season finale after remaining in the hunt for the world title by moving to within seven points of Hamilton.
"We're back in the championship. It will be interesting in the last race," he said. "We saw today that anything can and does happen so we'll see."