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Hamilton fifth in Sports Personality of the Year

Lewis Hamilton has finished fifth in a public vote for the 2015 BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

The triple world champion - who won the award in 2014 - was not present at the live event in Belfast having been nominated once again following back-to-back championships. Despite winning the F1 title in a more dominant fashion this season, Hamilton failed to even make the top three of the British public's vote.

Tennis player Andy Murray was the winner for the second time in three years, ahead of rugby league's Kevin Sinfield and athlete Jessica Ennis-Hill. Hamilton was also beaten by controversial boxing heavyweight champion of the world Tyson Fury.

Hamilton received 48,379 votes on Sunday evening compared to Murray's 361,446, with the latter having recently led Great Britain to Davis Cup victory for the first time in 79 years. Sinfield received over a quarter of a million votes, while Hamilton was more than 30,000 votes adrift of Ennis-Hill.

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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.