2014 world champion Lewis Hamilton has won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.The Briton, the first F1 driver to win the award since Damon Hill in 1996, who previously won it in 1994, beat off stiff opposition from golfer Rory McIlroy, who finished runner-up, and athlete Jo Pavey who finished third.The award, which is based on votes from the public, saw Hamilton take 209,920 of the 620,932 votes cast (34%), McIlroy getting 123,745 (20%) and Pavey 99,913 (16%).'I was sitting there saying Rory's going to have it,' admitted Hamilton, who was accompanied by his dog Roscoe. 'I thought it had to be someone else.''I want to say a huge thank you to all the people who called in, I really...
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