The Brazilian has performed well above expectations this year, out-driving his world champion team-mate, Kimi Raikkonen.
But he won more races than any other driver, put his world champion team-mate in the shade more often than not and was untouchable in Bahrain and Valencia, and unlucky in Hungary and Singapore.
Among those to congratulate Hamilton was former McLaren team-mate and double world champion Fernando Alonso.
His time of one minute, 26.801 seconds, was 0.25 seconds quicker than McLaren team-mate and current world champion Jenson Button.
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During the campaign, the now-Vice President-elect, Joe Biden, warned that the world would test his running mate early in his presidency.
The Brazilian is ahead of team-mate and new world champion Jenson Button.
Given the age profile of the London males and the failure to find a mate in the world's zoos, Mr Zimmerman is not very confident for the future of the species.
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With enduring links to Argentina, Brazil (where 5% of the people claim Middle Eastern roots), Chile and Venezuela, Syria can boast that it is the world's biggest importer of mate tea.
As the rain held off at Hockenheim, the Red Bulls and Ferrari dominated the fastest laps leaving world champion Button and team-mate Hamilton struggling 0.634 seconds behind the front two, something that troubled both McLaren drivers.
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Having carried out a search with other aquariums around the world and failed to find a mate for their bachelor boys, the team at the Zoological Society of London are now hoping that someone may have a female in a private collection.
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Fernando Alonso is said to be keen on having the 2009 world champion as a future team-mate.
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Hodge and Reed beat fours team-mate Steve Williams and former world junior champion Matt Langridge by six seconds, in a time of 6:27.99.
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McCain's choice of running mate surprised many in the political world.
Many fear Ronaldo would never play in the English Premiership again after he is believed to encourage Argentine referee Horacio Elizondo to send off Manchester United team mate Wayne Rooney in the 2006 World Cup quarter final.
"Welcome to my world, " said Hamilton, whose team-mate Heikki Kovalainen made it through qualifying session one and will start Sunday's race a row in 14th.
Peacock was also included in the annual World XIII, along with Leeds and Lions team-mate Gareth Ellis and Wigan stand-off Trent Barrett.
Davidson, who tested for BAR last season, was promoted to third driver after Sato succeeded former world champion Jacques Villeneuve as Button's team-mate for the 2004 campaign.
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The 24-year-old Milner, who looks like being a key player for England at this year's World Cup, is trying to emulate Aston Villa team-mate Ashley Young, who won the young player accolade last season.
"I think everyone's got to have their say, " Thompson, a team-mate of Dallaglio and Catt's in the 2003 World Cup-winning side, told BBC Radio Northampton.
Yoong and his team-mate Mark Webber of Australia, as well as former world champion Damon Hill, will also drive the two-seaters in the "Thunder in the Park II" event.
Best mate Gary Neville broke his shortly afterwards and missed the whole World Cup.
Campbell, who lost his 2002 European relay gold and 2003 World relay silver after Chambers' positive tests, says his former team-mate is a changed man.
Schumacher, in another disappointing weekend for the seven-time world champion, was more than 0.6 seconds slower than his team-mate.
McLaren's world champion left it late with a lap 0.047 seconds faster than team-mate Heikki Kovalainen, who had topped the morning timesheets.
Left-back Fabio Grosso, who netted the winning penalty in the 2006 World Cup final against France, scored a classy opener against the Bulgarians while his Juve team-mate Claudio Marchisio did well on the left midfield flank.
Stefanie Graf is an ideal mate for him, able to match his intensity stroke for stroke and able to understand the world that created him.
Simmonds increased her intensity but could not produce the necessary power to overtake team-mate Spofforth, who clocked more than a second-and-a-half over her world record time of 58.12secs.
Elsewhere on day 15 of the Games, China's world number one Zhang Yining won back-to-back table tennis golds, after defeating team-mate Wang Nan to hand the hosts a clean sweep of the medals in the women's singles.
Brownlee's team-mate, Stuart Hayes, proved that last year when he won one of triathlon's seven World Championship series races - the toughest in the sport - in Kitzbuhel.
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Most notable at this week's show was the Huawei Ascend Mate, a gargantuan 6.1-inch device that is aching to take the title of world's largest phone away from Samsung.
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