Ferrari's Formula One champion posted the fastest time in Saturday's final practice for the Malaysian Grand Prix.
The world champion had initially identified McLaren as Ferrari's main Formula One rivals this season.
Michael Schumacher led the team to a one-two victory in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix.
World champions Michael Schumacher finished sixth.
Images from the Tuscan F1 Grand Prix held at at Mugello, Scarperia e San Piero in Tuscany, Italy, on Sunday.
Hamilton wrapped up his record-equalling seventh title in Turkey last month and picked up his 11th win of the season in Bahrain on Sunday. Mercedes have already won the constructors' title for an unprecedented seventh year in a row.
China is offering low-priced tickets to watch Michael Schumacher and other participants in the country's first-ever Formula One race.
The FIA has clamped down on team-to-car radio as well as the two-way telemetry systems that enable engineers to tweak a car's settings while it is racing.
The Jordan racer shrugged off his reputation as Formula One's most underrated talent to win the 'Drivers' Driver' vote at the F1 Awards.\n\n
American cyclist Lance Armstrong, who won his fourth consecutive Tour de France this year, was voted foreign sportsperson of the year by the Spanish daily newspaper El Pais.
Federico Montoya will drive for the Berlin-based Muecke team in the German Formula BMW series next year.
Jaguar team boss Tony Purnell feels the Australian driver is a world champion in the making.
The German has after all won everything there is to win and broken just about every record in the book.
Ross Brawn said the memory of Nigel Mansell's failure to win the 1986 title from a similar position still lingers.
The German won a wet and wild US Grand Prix while Colombian rival Juan Pablo Montoya's title hopes were blown away.
The Italian clocked the fastest qualifying lap in first qualifying for Sunday's U.S. Grand Prix.\n\n
Ferrari's Michael Schumacher can win a record sixth Formula One championship at Indianapolis on Sunday if circumstances go his way.
World champion Michael Schumacher has recovered from flu and is itching to chalk up a record 12th victory of the season.
The defending F1 champion expects the title to be decided by a last-race duel between himself and the Colombian.
The German world champion now has 82 points to second-placed Montoya's 79.
Ferrari's ace is resigned to the idea of his younger brother helping the Colombian become world champion at his expense.
Mick Schumacher, the 19-year-old son of seven-times Formula One world champion Michael, won the European Formula Three title.
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