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Hamilton and Ricciardo up for Laureus awards

Lewis Hamilton and Daniel Ricciardo have both received nominations for the prestigious Laureus World Sports Awards.

Following an impressive title winning season last year - in which he won 11 of the 19 races - Hamilton is nominated for World Sportsman of the Year. The Mercedes driver is up against MotoGP's Marc Marquez as well as footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, golfer Rory McIlroy - who Hamilton beat to the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award in 2014 - tennis player Novak Djokovic and pole vault world record holder Renaud Lavillenie.

Hamilton is not in direct competition with Ricciardo in this occasion, with the Australian nominated in the Breakthrough of the Year category. Ricciardo's first season driving for Red Bull saw him take three victories - the only non-Mercedes driver to win a race - as he finished third in the drivers' championship.

Also nominated in the Breakthrough of the Year category are footballers Mario Gotze (Germany) and James Rodriguez (Columbia), tennis player Marin Cilic (Croatia), US skier Mikaela Shiffrin and the Swiss Davis Cup team.

Following its dominant 2014 season, Mercedes has also been nominated for World Team of the Year. The awards will take place in Shanghai following the Chinese Grand Prix weekend.

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Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.