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.
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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Fernando Alonso is said to be keen on having the 2009 world champion as a future team-mate.
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Mark Webber and World Champion Sebastian Vettel will drive team cars at the event in Midsummer Boulevard.
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The seven-time F1 world champion was helping the Italian team with their own appraisal of the Bridgestone rubber.
The 61-year-old stepped down as world champion Lewis Hamilton's team boss on 16 January, but stayed involved in F1.
He had been linked with a move to Ferrari, but the Italian team retained world champion Kimi Raikkonen and Brazilian driver Felipe Massa.
It reminds us, first, that the World Champion Brazilians are a Nike team, and second, that Brazil plays a creative, dazzling style of soccer, which outshines the more conservative, bruising teams.
In that 2011 Turkish Grand Prix, Red Bull duo Vettel and Webber finished first and second respectively but the German, a three-time world champion, concedes that his team's driving is having a negative effect on the Pirellis.
Barrichello will team up with world champion Michael Schumacher for the fifth year running when the season begins on 7 March in Australia.
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Hamilton has become a hate figure for some Spaniards because of his rivalry with the country's double world champion Fernando Alonso when they were team-mates at McLaren.
Hunt - brother of former F1 world champion James Hunt - acquired the Team Lotus name following the collapse of the team in 1994 with financial problems.
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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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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The Brazilian is ahead of team-mate and new world champion Jenson Button.
Every World Series champion can rightly be called an outstanding team.
Campos - who has already signed Brazilian Bruno Senna, the nephew of the late triple world champion Ayrton - would not confirm whether the team would make it to the first race.
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F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone has now backed Honda to return to the front of the grid in partnership with McLaren, which lost former world champion Lewis Hamilton to Brawn's Mercedes team after last season and has struggled this year.
Jaguar entered Formula One in 2000 after Ford took over the Stewart team founded by three-times world champion Jackie Stewart in 1997.
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Rosberg fills one of the two slots in the team caused by the departures of world champion Jenson Button and Brazilian Rubens Barrichello.
Speculation has been mounting that seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher will be the other driver but team principal Ross Brawn has ruled it out.
Hamilton replaced seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher at the "Silver Arrow" team after the German legend retired for the second time at the end of last season.
Former world champion Jacques Villeneuve has joined forces with Italian race team Durango to submit an entry for the 13th slot on the grid next season, according to Durango team owner Ivone Pinton.
The 2004 200m Olympic champion and silver medallist in Beijing Shawn Crawford and 100m star Carmelita Jeter will be competing for Team USA, captained by reigning world indoor champion hurdler Lolo Jones.
Meanwhile, Jody Scheckter - Ferrari's last world champion before Schumacher in 1979 - admitted he could understand the team's actions.
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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The pair sprayed champagne while Red Bull team boss Christian Horner, three-time world champion Sir Jackie Stewart and Mercedes chief executive Nick Fry were also on hand to mark the unveiling.
The statement added the three-times former world champion and his son had also attempted to "blackmail the team" into allowing Piquet Jr to continue to drive until the end of the 2009 season.
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