Off the track, Hamilton's life has changed dramatically since his first appearance in an F1 car.
The last woman to race an F1 car was Lella Lombardi back in 1976.
At present, regenerative braking adds between 20kg and 30kg to an F1 car's weight.
He said he was also amazed at the vast array of gadgets in the cockpit of an F1 car.
Regulations require that an F1 car must not weigh less than 605kg, including the driver and the vehicle's various fluids.
But no F1 car constructor would build a vehicle one gram more than the minimum for fear of making it uncompetitive.
Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel took his F1 car for a spin through his mountainous hometown of Heppenheim in Germany on Sunday.
After weeks of rest he was able to start physical rehabilitation, before finally driving an old Ferrari F1 car in a private test.
It will be the first time Webber has driven an F1 car since breaking his right leg in a mountain bike accident in November.
Vettel says money is not a motivation for him and that he loves the sport so much that he would pay to drive an F1 car.
Hamilton, who became the youngest driver to win the Formula One world title this year, will also perform a demonstration run in his McLaren F1 car.
Both the foot pedals and the steering wheel are adjustable so that drivers can recreate what it feels like to be behind the wheel of an F1 car.
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The Algarve test will be the first time Hamilton has driven an F1 car at speed since clinching the title and becoming F1's youngest ever champion in Brazil last November.
The Englishman has won on the streets of the Principality in both Formula Three and GP2, but in an F1 car the track is one of motor racing's greatest challenges.
All eyes were on Toro Rosso rookie Jaime Alguersuari at the start of Friday's first practice session as the 19-year-old debutant put in his first tentative laps in an F1 car.
"An F1 car is like a fighter jet the technology, the G-force, the quickness, " said Scott Speed, the last American driver to compete in F1 (2007), who has since competed in Nascar.
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He drove his F1 car around the Norman Foster-designed building's ornamental lake, parked it outside the main entrance and entered to huge cheers from the McLaren staff and applause from the media.
There are five drivers -- Max Chilton and Jules Bianchi of Marussia, Sauber's Esteban Gutierrez, Valtteri Bottas of Williams and Van der Garde of Caterham -- who joined F1 in 2013 with limited experience of driving an F1 car.
Like a F1 race car, a driver will be able to call on that added boost for a launch down the straightaway or coming out of a corner.
Before the Briton entered Formula One last year, Dennis said he would give Hamilton a rare McLaren F1 road car, currently on display at the Woking factory, if he won three titles for him.
There has long been speculation that BMW could quit F1 along with fellow car manufacturers Toyota and Renault because of the effects of the economic downturn on car sales.
He did, though, deny claims that Dallara had ended its contract with the team and sold the car to F1 hopefuls Stefan Grand Prix, a team set up by Serbian businessman Zoran Stefanovich who do not have an entry for 2010.
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The road-car manufacturers in F1 have made it clear they are opposed to this idea.
And it is part of a trend that is seeing road-car manufacturers using F1 teams as a means of raising their profile.
The 24-year-old, who becomes the third British driver on the grid alongside McLaren duo Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button, made a solid start to his first full season in F1, testing the 2010 car in Valencia last week.
Honda quit F1 in December, citing falling car sales and the global financial crisis.
The move brings a Japanese road-car manufacturer back into F1 for the first time since Toyota quit at the end of the 2009 season - which followed Honda's withdrawal a year earlier.
BMW's departure leaves four car manufacturers still competing in F1: Ferrari, Mercedes Benz, Toyota and Renault.
Car company Group Lotus and F1's Team Lotus are at loggerheads over the name.
He added that any other course of action would have led to some of the car manufacturers pulling out of F1 - although he would not specify which ones.
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