In brief: Hamilton receives a Laureus Award

Yesterday, Kimi Räikkönen was not awarded the prestigious Laureus Award given to the sportsman of the year in St. Petersburg. But who was?

Lewis Hamilton? Not this time, but he stole the spotlight from the reigning world champion because he was awarded the trophy in the category of Breakthrough of the Year.

And without much surprise, it was tennis player Roger Federer, present at the Russian awards ceremony, who was honored with the title of Champion of the Year for the fourth consecutive year. Hamilton, 23, also received his award in person.

Iceman, for his part, did not attend the event as if he had sensed the defeat…

Although nominated, Ferrari did not succeed in obtaining the title of Team of the Year. The latter went to the South African rugby team, the world champion.