Four-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton said on Friday (8th December) that he "doesn't have the desire" to try to win four more world titles and beat the record of seven held by Michael Schumacher.

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Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton said on Friday that he lacks the motivation to beat the record for most F1 titles currenly held by Michael Schumacher.

Hamilton was speaking at the FIA Champions press conference in Paris - where a host of motorsport world champions reflected on their achievements over the course of the 2017 season.

Mercedes driver Hamilton secured a fourth world crown, beating Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel into second plance and his team-mate Valtteri Bottas into third.

Despite his admission that he doesn't think he can win another four titles, the Briton did concede that a fifth championship to match Argentine legend Juan Manuel Fangio would be "cool".

Vettel admitted that he "ruined" his world title chamces at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix when he collided with Hamilton - an act he described on Friday as "something unncessary".

Before the race, Vettel and Hamilton had been neck-and-neck in the drivers' standings.

Also speaking on Friday were World RX champion, Sweden's Johan Krisoffersen, World Touring Cars champion Sweden's Thed Bjork and Lucas Di Grassi - the Brazilian who won the Formula E world title despite racing with a broken leg in one of the races.

Paris, France. 8th December, 2017.

1. 00:00 Jean Todt arrives at press stage

2. 00:08 SOUNDBITE (English): Jean Todt, newly re-elected FIA president:

"We have a new championship, which is delivering very well, which is Formula E. In one year time, we have only one car, so it means that in five years, we are able to double the energy on an electric car, which is something absolutely sensational. Racing is a show, but it also must be a laboratory."

3. 00:36 Lewis Hamilton arrives at press room

4. 00:41 SOUNDBITE: (English) Lewis Hamilton, F1 World Champion:

"Obviously I went into that (season) break and mentally I was like, I don't ever want to be in a position, or put the team in a position that they have to decide whether we are first or second. I was like, from now on, I need to be ahead every single time and there'll never, ever be a question of Valterri (Bottas), you have to let Lewis past, those kind of things."

5. 01:07 Wide of press conference

6. 01:10 SOUNDBITE (English): Lewis Hamilton, F1 World Champion:

(about winning four more championships to beat the record of Michael Schumacher)

"I can't see it at the moment, four more. Well, you can imagine it's taken me ten years to achieve these four. I currently still don't have that desire to match it. I think that matching (Juan Manuel) Fangio (5 titles) could be quite cool."

7. 01:37 Lewis Hamilton leaves press room

8. 01:43 Screens to Sebastian Vettel and Valtteri Bottas entering press room

9. 01:51 SOUNDBITE (English): Valtteri Bottas, FIA F1 championship third place:

(about the moment that Nico Rosberg announced his retirement)

(Q: You called Toto (Wolff, Mercedes boss) or Toto called you?)

"I called Toto, because it wasn't so long that I saw the news. I just wanted to make sure they know that I wanted to be in this team."

10. 02:05 Press conference

11. 02:08 SOUNDBITE (English): Sebastian Vettel, FIA F1 championship second place:

"The worst feeling I had after Baku (Azerbaijan Grand Prix) I think, just because I sort of ruined the race with something unnecessary. I struggled with that. Then you would probably refer to other races such as Singapore and Japan. But then you know, Singapore, from my point of view, that's racing, I thought a lot about it on Sunday night and it was not easy to put behind, but then what do you do? The same in Japan. I don't know, there is a saying, I don't know if I get the literal translation right or wrong - I'll try. "You can't hold on to something that is not in your hands. Or you can't grasp something that is not in your hands". That's a good fit. Sometimes things are not in your hands, so you have to move forward. I think you struggle generally in life more with things that you messed up rather than got messed up for you, if you see what I mean."

12. 03:03 Vettel and Bottas leaving the press room

13. 03:12 Close up of screens

14. 03:15 Johan Kristoffersson

15. 03:18 SOUNDBITE (English): Johan Kristoffersson, FIA World RX World Champion:

"Of course the car was good, but it was quite a big changing and set up changes to get it working in the WRX as well. It took some time before we really got it perfect. We were well prepared when we came to Barcelona, but then in the beginning of the season we struggled quite a lot with the launch which is very important in rallycross, but after a while we got that sorted out and also the wet track we were not the best on, but after half the season through, I also won the wet race, so we got that sorted out as well. Me and Petter (Solberg, team-mate) are very demanding drivers and we are having a lot of ideas, but the team have been working very good and they supported us and gave us all the tools we needed to develop the car."

16. 04:07 Screens

17. 04:11 Johan Kristoffersson leaving the press room

18. 04:18 Thed Bjork entering press room

19. 04:28 SOUNDBITE (English): Thed Bjork, FIA WTCC World Champion:

"But I also have to say that Tiago Monteiro, which I respect a lot, had a big accident, you know this and he was leading the championship, so it also felt a little bit strange not to be fighting with him until the end. Because a little bit in the beginning of the season I saw Tiago as the main competitor and I hope to be there fighting against him. So I hope he can recover and try to get the next championship."

20. 04:55 Thed Bjork leaves the press room

21. 05:04 Lucas Di Grassi enters the press room

22. 05:16 SOUNDBITE (English): Lucas Di Grassi, FIA Formula E Champion:

"I never made it because of this (shows his foot). Question: You had a football injury, is that right?"

23. 05:22 Close up of his foot

24. 05:27 SOUNDBITE (English): Lucas Di Grassi, FIA Formula E Champion:

(on his football injury which saw him race with with a broken leg)

"One week, four days before the Berlin race, I drove with a broken leg, but I didn't know it was broken. I didn't do an X-ray before Le Mans, but in Le Mans my foot was turning blue, so the doctor said: 'I think it's a better idea if you do an X-ray'. And I said: 'Yes, maybe for Le Mans it's a good idea'. I did an X-ray on the track and it was fully broken, but I was not aware. So I did Berlin with a broken fibula. It was fully fractured, that's why I had to put six screws."

24. 05:57 Inscription on the wall (in English): "Prize Giving 2017 Paris"

25. 06:01 SOUNDBITE (English): Lucas Di Grassi, FIA Formula E Champion:

"Electric technology is evolving really quick, actually the technology is evolving quicker than the regulations at the moment, so we could have as much power as we probably want in a Formula E car right now in terms of pure power."

26. 06:19 Inscription on the wall (in English): "Prize Giving 2017 Paris"

27. 06:22 SOUNDBITE (English): Lucas Di Grassi, FIA Formula E Champion:

"The trick now is to get more power with the same gear and higher top speed, so maybe from zero to 70 or to 80 with a single gear at a constant acceleration, and the motors are really small."

28. 06:35 End of press conference

In Paris, seven leading Soviet dissident exiles, on 22 january, supported US President Jimmy Carter's proposals to boycott the Moscow olympics, saying if they take place, it will be like Hitler's exploitations of the 1936 games in Berlin.

The group which included physicist Alexander Ginzburg, Ukranian religious dissident Edward Kuznetzov and Vladimir Bukovsky who was exchanged for a Chilean Communist in 1976, told a news conference that the boycott and Carter's embargo of grain shipments would further the cause of human rights. The seven are members of a group calling itself "Committee for the Rights of Man, Moscow 1980". They said the Soviet Union has prepared for the olympics by arresting dissidents. They described the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and suppression of human rights as two sides of the same coin. The President of the committee, Marek Halter, said that even if the boycott of the olympics succeeds, the fight for human rights will by no means be over. He went on to say, "we take this opportunity to appeal to all the governments in the world for total amnesty for all prisoners of conscience." His statement was followed by one in Russian from Bukovsky, who said "if the boycott is effective - the Russians will be forced to tell the truth....they can lie about grain..they can lie about the tanks in Prague and Afghanistan, saying they are just going for a stroll - but how can they lie about an empty stadium on the day of the olympics?"

1. ms poster on wall: (French): "Committee for the Rights of Man, Moscow 1980", tilt down to members of the dissident group at table, Marek Halter, SOUNDBITE: (French), delivers statement...

2. cutaways to press

3. ms Vladimir Bukovsky, SOUNDBITE: (Russian), delivers statement, interpreter translates into French...

4. ms Edward Kuznetzov, SOUNDBITE: (Russian), delivers statement, interpreter translates into French..., pan to Halter, opens up questions from the press...

5. ms L. Puouchtch, SOUNDBITE: (Russian), delivers statement, interpreter translates into French, pan to Vladimir Bukovsky, SOUNDBITE: (Russian), delivers statement, interpreter translates into French...

6. cutaway to poster on wall with cartoon image, tilt down to ls dissidents at table

7. cutaway to press

8. member of audience, SOUNDBITE: (French) makes statement

9. Halter, SOUNDBITE: (French), delivers statement...

10. ms N. Gorbanevskaya, SOUNDBITE: (French) delivers statement

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