Four-time Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton finished in 6th place in the voting for the 2017 BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.
Four-time Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton, who has now won three of his four career titles in the sport over the last four seasons of his 11-year career, ended up finishing in 6th place in the voting for the 2017 BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.
Sir Mohamed Farah, a 34-year-old runner, won the award. Jonathan Rea, a 30-year-old motorcycle racer, Jonnie Peacock, a 24-year-old runner, Anthony Joshua, a 28-year-old boxer, and Adam Peaty, a 22-year-old swimmer, rounded out the top 5 from 2nd through 5th place, respectively, in front of Hamilton.
Farah winning the award was deemed to be an upset victory, as Joshua was the favorite heading into the ceremony. Farah won with 83,524 votes while Joshua earned 73,411. So far, there have been zero claims of Russian interference in the voting.
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Hamilton ended up finished in 6th place in the voting with 60,627 votes, which was 3,112 votes shy of Peaty’s total of 63,739 in 5th and 12,944 votes ahead of the total of Chris Froome, a 32-year-old cyclist, which was 47,683, good for 7th in the voting. No one outside of the top 7 in the voting had even half the vote total of Froome’s total.
Hamilton, who recently skipped his FIA Hall of Fame induction in Paris, France to attend the Fashion Awards in London, England, also skipped the ceremony during which the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award was awarded.
However, despite the fact that he did not actually attend the ceremony at Liverpool’s Echo Arena, the four-time Formula One champion did speak from Los Angeles, California and discussed his future in the sport of Formula One and potentially tying Juan Manuel Fangio for 2nd place on the all-time championships list with five, according to Telegraph.co.uk.
"This is a lifelong dream, something that my family and I have been striving towards for many, many years. We just want to keep going."
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