Bringing Lewis Hamilton to the Race of Champions next year is the number one goal for Fredrik Johnsson, the event's co-founder.

22-year-old Hamilton, who missed out on becoming Formula One's first rookie world champion by just one point, was prevented from going wheel-to-wheel with the likes of Michael Schumacher at Wembley Stadium because he was already committed to attending an event for one of the McLaren team's sponsors.

But his father Anthony was in North London, and Johnsson said he was hopeful of getting the British superstar to compete in 2008.

Johnsson said: "He's done a fantastic season and he's so popular, so of course we would have loved to have him here and he is a big target for next year, the big target I would say.

"Lewis has always said that he wants to do it, so I certainly hope that we can work it out so he can make it next year.

"Anthony was here and I spoke to him. He said he was very impressed and he stayed for the entire event right till the end, so that's a very good sign, despite how cold it was."

The 20th running of the annual event, which was won for a second year in a row by Mattias Ekstrom was held at Wembley for the first time, having switched over from a five-year-stint at the Stade de France in Paris.

Johnsson said that he had generally been impressed with the organisation of the event, even though he admitted a few teething problems had occurred.

He and the event's fellow co-founder Michelle Mouton will discuss the future of the event with Wembley representatives after Christmas, and are extremely hopeful of a return next year.

"We will sit down and talk about things in the new year and there's a very good chance that we'll be coming back to Wembley. We will have a normal debrief starting this week, we will analyse our options for next year and then sit down and discuss things. We are generally very happy with how everything has gone, Johnsson added.

"There were a few issues. The main ones were that we had to change the track a little bit to fit in a bit better than it was before and also the tickets came out a little bit later than we would have liked only a month before the event. Things we have to work on for next year.

"We had 50,000 sales in advance. They stopped the advance sales on Thursday. We couldn't shift any more so I don't know exactly what the final turnout was. It's been a success."

Jamie O'Leary / Eurosport