The McLaren driver was crowned driver of the year by Britain's Autosport magazine despite being beaten to the F1 title by Alonso.
The victory in Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix lifted him up alongside some of Formula One's greatest names.
Narain Karthikeyan finished 17th in Saturday's first qualifying for Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix.
The next time the four-time world champion will get behind the wheel will be for first Friday practice at Melbourne's Albert Park on March 23.
The 21-year-old Briton could be drafted in for next week's season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix.
Lewis Hamilton's hopes of clinching his fifth Formula One World championship at the US Grand Prix were boosted on Friday when Ferrari rival Sebastian Vettel was handed a three-place grid penalty for a practice infringement.
He will start on the front row alongside Renault's Fernando Alonso. India's Narain Karthikeyan qualified on 17th place.
Renault took second and third place with Italian Giancarlo Fisichella and newly-crowned champion Fernando Alonso respectively.
The Indian driver says he would like to take the place of Williams test driver Alex Wurz's, who has been promoted as one of the team's two race drivers.
Silverstone can provide the antidote to Austria for Lewis Hamilton this weekend, with a record sixth British Grand Prix win -- and his fifth in a row -- there for the taking.
Lewis Hamilton surpassed Ayrton Senna's career haul of 65 pole positions in Formula One as he edged Mercedes team mate Valtteri Bottas to secure top spot the Azerbaijan Grand Prix on Saturday.
A suspected electrical problem halted his McLaren on the first day of practice for the new Formula One season in Bahrain.
The McLaren driver has only one piece of advice for Formula One's rookie drivers: 'Let us past.'
India's Narain Karthikeyan finished last, at 20, with a classification time of 1:51.675
Lewis Hamilton's record already bears comparison to Michael Schumacher's, and in some areas exceeds the great German's achievements.
Sahara Force India consolidated its fourth position in the constructors championship by collecting seven points from the Mexican Grand Prix with Nico Hulkenberg finishing seventh and Sergio Perez 10th in Mexico City on Sunday.
The Mercedes driver is 14 points clear of his rival and fellow four-times world champion after winning in France on Sunday and heads to Spielberg confident of continuing the momentum.
The McLaren driver suggested that whoever he signed for, it would be something of a gamble.
Aseel Al-Hamad declared the start of a new era for Saudi women in motorsport on Sunday as she prepared to drive a Formula One car around the French Grand Prix circuit in front of thousands of fans.
The Spaniard will replace the Colombian at McLaren for the rest of the season.
India's Narain Karthikeyan will start 19th on the grid.
Quadruple Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel went for five on Friday with the German choosing to have that numeral on his car when he is eventually deposed as number one.
Nico Rosberg won the Austrian Formula One Grand Prix for the second year in a row in a Mercedes one-two finish with team mate Lewis Hamilton on Sunday.
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The Scot believes his former McLaren team mate Kimi Raikkonen could yet emerge as Formula One champion this season.\n
Sebastian Vettel will drop three places in next week's Japanese Grand Prix as punishment for tipping championship leader Nico Rosberg into a spin at the start of Sunday's Formula One race in Malaysia.
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