Six times Formula 1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton laid hands on the Formula 1 winners' trophy on Friday as his late team boss Niki Lauda was voted personality of the year at the governing FIA's prizegiving gala. Motorsport legend Lauda, a triple F1 World Champion and one of the all-time greats as well as the Mercedes team's non-executive chairman, died in May aged 70 after a lung transplant previous August. The award was the result of a vote by permanently accredited media from the International Automobile Federation's various championships. There was also recognition for the late race-director Charlie Whiting, who died before the season-opening race in Australia, and French F2 driver...
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