Ferrari's Alonso posted the quickest lap times in each of Friday's two practice sessions for the Belgian GP.
The Spanish driver signalled his intention with a lap of 2 minutes, 0.797 seconds in a rain-affected morning session.
He then capitalised on a chaotic finish to a mainly dry afternoon stint to go round in 1:49.032, 0.125 seconds ahead of Andrian Sutil
Mclaren's Hamilton was third but Red Bull's championship leader Mark Webber was 2.6secs off the pace .
Robert Kubica's Renault, testing the team's completely new F-duct aerodynamic system, came through fourth fastest and Fernando Alonso's teammate Felipe Massa was sixth.
Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel, third in the drivers' rankings, was 0.657secs off the pace and reigning world champion Jenson Button of McLaren was a further 0.066secs back.
Fernando Alonso ended up on top but his rivals may point to the open track on which he was able to post his top time following a red flag towards the end of second practice.
The Brazilian Barrichello, who is set to become the first Formula 1 driver to start 300 races on Sunday, was almost 1.1secs off the pace.
Mercedes' seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher goes into the race with a 10-place grid penalty after nearly running Barrichello into a pit wall at the Hungarian GP.
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