Well done Lewis.
For SPORTING achievements this year there was no other winner.
For achievements by Sports people there were so many
Sports Personality of the Year 2020: Lewis Hamilton crowned winner - https://www.bbc.com/sport/sports-personality/55336369
We watched some of SPOTY - it was awful
It used to be a highlight but we will be giving it a swerve from now on
Here is a surprising fact - Vettel has only won 14 races during the 6 seasons at Ferrari
The only thing that stops me seeing him as the 'Greatest (as difficult as that is to compare generations) is that he never had to start with a shit car, nor ha he joined a team in the dumps and helped them achieve greatness… Fold like Prost, Senna, Schumacher etc, all started with very average teams and demonstrated their talent and in case of Schumacher, he went to Ferrari, when they were pretty average and turned them around.
Lewis has had it pretty good… at McLaren form a young age and into a winning car… and then left them when they started to struggle to join what was Braun that had just won the championship…With Mercedes cash, they were never going to trail RedBull for long, and so its proved.
He always comes across as someone trying too hard to be liked and be cool, bit like Beckham, constantly changing his hair and ‘style’ a bit self obsessed. Ironically, its maybe given he has just won SPOTY, its personality that he seems to lack…
Vettel is another one who seem devoid of any ‘personality’… maybe just like in the snooker, its all become a bit sterile… F1 was always about the personalities, right up until the 2000s… the last being Michael ‘Dick Dastardly’ Schumacher… since then, who is there?
He’s a great tax exile though.
You could sort of understand it when the top rate of tax was 90%.
Never got this criticism - so he lives in Monoco, so what
He stills pays UK taxes on income earned here so for instance any prize money he receives for winning the British Grand Prix is taxed here - same in the other countries
Anyway for a tax exile he is still in the top 5000 highest Uk taxpayers
Arise, Sir Lewis.
Tigger will be pleased.