Lewis Hamilton is BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2020

Lewis Hamilton has won the public vote for BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2020 after a dominant, record-breaking season in F1.

Lewis Hamilton race victory

Lewis Hamilton has been named BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2020 after winning the public vote.

The seven-time F1 World Champion pipped Liverpool FC captain Jordan Henderson and jockey Hollie Doyle to take the award.

It is the second time Hamilton has won Sports Personality of the Year, with his first success coming in 2014.

The Mercedes-AMG F1 driver has also finished runner-up in the award four times.

“There’s so many great stories out there,” he told the BBC, “so I truly wasn’t expecting it.

“I am so, so, so grateful to the British public.

“This definitely goes a long way to giving me the best Christmas that I can have given the circumstances.”

Lewis Hamilton with team-mate Valtterie Bottas

During 2020, Hamilton matched Michael Schumacher’s record for the most F1 World Championships – and also beat his record for most F1 wins, ending the season with a staggering 95 victories in the sport.

Hamilton won 11 of the 17 F1 races in 2020, despite missing a race due to coronavirus.

The 35-year old’s 2020 World Championship is his fourth consecutive F1 title.

Last week, Hamilton’s boss, Toto Wolff, became a one-third shareholder in the dominant Mercedes-AMG F1 team, alongside Daimler AG and British chemicals giant Ineos.

Hamilton is currently out of contract at the team but talks are expected to begin ahead of the 2021 F1 season commencing in March.

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Richard is director at Motoring Research. He has been with us since 2001, and has been a motoring journalist even longer. He won the IMCO Motoring Writer of the Future Award in 1996 and the acclaimed Sir William Lyons Award in 1998. Both awards are run by the Guild of Motoring Writers and Richard is currently vice chair of the world's largest organisation for automotive media professionals. Richard is also a juror and Steering Committee director for World Car Awards and the UK juror for the AUTOBEST awards.

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