If the German could take the championship in 2012, he would join Argentina's Juan Manuel Fangio and compatriot and seven-time title winner Michael Schumacher as the only men to have won the sport's biggest prize three years in a row.
It was another superb performance in the wet from Hamilton, who has inherited Michael Schumacher's mantle as Formula One's rain master.
Formula One It was the year of Mika and McLaren as the flying Finn took top spot over Michael Schumacher, while McLaren outpaced Ferrari for the constructor's title.
Michael Schumacher seized pole position on Saturday as Ferrari swept the front row for the second race in succession.
Wirth was Benetton chief designer as the team slid from competitiveness in the late 1990s following Michael Schumacher's departure for Ferrari.
Alonso went on to win a second consecutive championship in 2006, beating Ferrari's Michael Schumacher in a straight fight, before moving to McLaren as Hamilton's team-mate in 2007.
"Our entire team is extremely motivated, as am I, " he told his personal Web site www.michael.schumacher.de.
Red Bull's Mark Webber emerged as the track dried later on to go third ahead of Mercedes's Michael Schumacher.
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Michael Schumacher insists, however, that his team will not panic as they seek to get back on terms with Williams with six races to go.
Nico Rosberg has been signed as one of their drivers and it looks increasingly likely that seven-time champion Michael Schumacher could come out of retirement to be the other.
There's terrific work as well by countertenors Daniel Bubeck, Brian Cummings and Nathan Medley, and by dancers Michael Schumacher, Anani Sanouvi and Troy Ogilvie.
"Michael is 100 per cent committed to his return, " added Kehm, who is regarded as one of Schumacher's inner circle.
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