Poll: BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2014

Who should win BBC sports personality of the year

  • Gareth Bale

    Votes: 5 4.3%

  • Charlotte Dujardin

    Votes: 2 1.7%

  • Carl Froch

    Votes: 5 4.3%

  • Kelly Gallagher & Charlotte Evans

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Lewis Hamilton

    Votes: 64 55.2%

  • Rory McIlroy

    Votes: 26 22.4%

  • Jo Pavey

    Votes: 7 6.0%

  • Adam Peaty

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Max Whitlock

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • Lizzy Yarnold

    Votes: 6 5.2%
  • Total voters
    116
  • Poll closed .
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Merlin5 said:
But Lewis WAS there, so....
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So well done.

To compare it to other achievements when you don't get a massive advantage over all but your team mate is laughable. Again he's worth less than 0.5% of the cars performance over a lap. No one would think Froch was worthy if he had special gloves to punch 20% harder and faster than the rest of the world as the only person that could use them.
 
Your argument is so narrow minded, I totally understand your point of view but there's just so much more to it than his car. Yes he's blessed with a dominant car, but he's still regarded as the most talented driver on the grid and the quickest (car aside). He produced some world class drives this year to win races, races that won him the title.

As mentioned previously, it takes a hell of a lot to be a racing driver and the risk to their lives is crazy.
 
I don't doubt that Hamilton deserved to win the title this year, he was the better driver of the pair at Mercedes. In this though, it's not really a great achievement when you haven't got much competition to beat. If McIlroy had won every tournament going but all the other competitors had to use a stick, the public would just see on paper that he won everything going as opposed to the reasons behind it.
 
robbiemc said:
Lewis Hamilton? If Jenson loses out to Ryan **** Gigs (who did exactly what that year?) then why on earth should Lewis get it? At least Jenson actually has a personality.
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Ryan Giggs won the Premier League for the 11th time and League Cup for the 3rd time. He played in his 3rd Champions League Final, 2 of which he won. He was also voted the PFA Player's Player of the Year.

If you think Jenson Buttons achievement is even close, then your bias is pretty clear.
 
Steedie said:
Your argument is so narrow minded, I totally understand your point of view but there's just so much more to it than his car. Yes he's blessed with a dominant car, but he's still regarded as the most talented driver on the grid and the quickest (car aside). He produced some world class drives this year to win races, races that won him the title.

As mentioned previously, it takes a hell of a lot to be a racing driver and the risk to their lives is crazy.
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He's not regarded as the most talented driver on the grid.

Risk to lives is not crazy, they live off the risks from the 70's. It's probably more dangerous to ride horses.
 
dannyjo22 said:
He becomes a triple world champion?

In a sport where the regulations are locked down hard enough to make it hard for anyone to now close the gap. I would be utterly shocked if the car doesn't win again next year.
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I meant SPOTY wise. I know he's the odds on favourite for F1. Hence the question.

Surely he'd have to get it again. Rory's achievement this year is unlikely to be beaten next year.
 
dannyjo22 said:
He becomes a triple world champion?

In a sport where the regulations are locked down hard enough to make it hard for anyone to now close the gap. I would be utterly shocked if the car doesn't win again next year.
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I can only see McLaren or Williams getting anywhere close next season.

What WILL happen however is everyone will start comparing him to Senna. That will be hideous.
 
I like f1 and Lewis. But I'd much rather have seen Rory win it. I agree with some people that in F1, most of the reason that Lewis won the championship was his car. His victory is more down to his car than him being a better driver than the others. I mean look at vettel this year compared to last, because his car wasn't as dominant as it has been for the last few years. Whoever has the best car wins, and that's just the way it is in f1 at the moment.
 
Won by a fair margin then.

It probably 'should' have been McIlroy, but at the end of the day it was a public vote and the public voted for Hamilton.

If that gives you butthurt then find a sports award decided by a panel rather than public vote :p.
 
Funnily enough, the only British world champion of recent note who actually has a personality is the one who hasn't won SPOTY.

Lewis Hamilton is a *****. There's no two ways about it. Immediate tax dodging action the moment he got the opportunity despite the support his single father got raising a kid in this country. His constant bitching at his team when things weren't going his way was unbelievably petulant all season. The switch he would flip at the end of the race and thank the team and say it was all about them was hideous. And the fact he only comes back to this country when it suits his media profile, or he needs RNR is just so transparent.

If you're talking personality, Rosberg had him beat for class all season. And if you're talking skill, Alonso drove the wheels off that Ferrari to crush a former world champion in Kimi who's no slouch.
 
Just a glorified "who has the most fans" contest.

Charlotte Dujardin just got another 2 world records in the last 24 hours (as well as being current world, euro and Olympic champ), yet she only came 4th.

Don't get me wrong I like Lewis but SPOTY?
 
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