Fernando Alonso put Renault on pole position for Sunday's Malaysian Grand Prix.
Hamilton will be out of contract at the end of next season.
The glittering evening attracted royalty as well as movie stars, entertainers and a worldwide television audience estimated at 320 million.
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.
Lance Armstrong and Roger Federer were nominated for the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year award.
Red Bull, owned by Austrian energy drink billionaire Dietrich Mateschitz, have taken over the old Jaguar team.
"Basically I came home pretty much frustrated from China, after a very sad season," the seven times Formula One champion said.
If the German wins the title, he could then walk away and Massa would simply slot in alongside Raikkonen at Ferrari.
Ferrari showed off their 2020 Formula One car with a theatrical show of pride and passion on Tuesday, assuring success-starved fans that it was also very different under the skin to last year's model. The SF1000, marking the Italian team's 1,000th race that comes up this year, is the car Ferrari hope can end six years of Mercedes domination and dash Lewis Hamilton's bid to equal Michael Schumacher's record seven titles.
Sebastian Vettel is Ferrari's first choice to partner Charles Leclerc next year, team boss Mattia Binotto said on Tuesday, despite speculation that they want six times world champion Lewis Hamilton. The 32-year-old German had a difficult and disappointing 2019 season, outperformed by Leclerc in the young Monegasque's first year at Ferrari, and is out of contract at the end of 2020. Hamilton is in a similar position with Formula One champions Mercedes, although the Briton is expected to stay, and met Ferrari chairman John Elkann last year.
The Finn fought back from sixth quickest in Friday's first practice session to edge out Schumacher for the fastest time overall.
The time sheet for Sunday's Malaysian Formula One Grand Prix.
But the Spaniard also believes that he will be able to fight back strongly in the last three and retain his title.
"The reality check is a race weekend so there is nowhere to hide from that," said the Scot.
As his stunned rivals licked their wounds, Schumacher warned that Ferrari would not have it that easy at the next race in Malaysia on March 21.
Paddock sentiment has started swinging towards the expectation that the German will continue for another year or two.
Formula One world champion Fernando Alonso is confident he can stop Michael Schumacher's winning run in his Ferrari rival's home German Grand Prix this weekend.
The driver's manager Willi Weber announced the donation on a German television fundraising drive which raised over 34 million euros ($46.2 million) in pledges.
Michael Schumacher believes he can turn his record eighth French Grand Prix win into an eighth Formula One championship.
The 37-year-old's victory in France also made him the first driver to win the same Grand Prix eight times
Michael Schumacher seized pole position as Ferrari swept the front row at the French Grand Prix
His manager Willi Weber also said the German driver was not going to McLaren.
IMAGES from the Silverstone F1 GP on Sunday
More than 100,000 viewers voted in the contest, which was broadcast on ZDF television.
Renault's Fernando Alonso took a giant step towards becoming Formula One's youngest champion by finishing a close second.
Points rather than a podium finish may be the best Ferrari can hope for from their home Italian Grand Prix this weekend, said the Formula One champion.
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