Daniel Ricciardo has won F1 Fanatic’s polls for best driver and best overtaking move of 2014.
Ricciardo, who scored his breakthrough victory this season and took two more wins by the end of the year, took 43.1% of the votes in the Driver of the Year poll.
World champion Lewis Hamilton took the second highest number of votes, following by Fernando Alonso.
Ricciardo had four separate nominations in the poll for Pass of the Year, and came on top for his overtaking move on team mate Sebastian Vettel in the Italian grand Prix:
It was the second year in a row the poll was won by a Red Bull driver for a pass on his team mate. Last year Vettel won for a pass on Mark Webber.
Another pass on Vettel took the second-highest number of votes this year – Alonso’s move on the Red Bull driver at Copse during the British Grand Prix.
Recent Driver of the Year poll winners
2014: Daniel Ricciardo
2013: Sebastian Vettel
2012: Fernando Alonso
2011: Sebastian Vettel
2010: Lewis Hamilton
Recent Pass of the Year poll winners
2014: Daniel Ricciardo for passing Sebastian Vettel in the Italian GP
2013: Sebastian Vettel for passing Mark Webber in the Malaysian GP
2012: Kimi Raikkonen for passing Michael Schumacher in the Belgian GP
2011: Mark Webber for passing Fernando Alonso in the Belgian GP
2010: Robert Kubica for passing Jenson Button in the European GP
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Euro Brun (@eurobrun)
25th December 2014, 11:36
Come on Keith, take a break mate! You deserve it. Happy christmas!
William Stuart (@williamstuart)
25th December 2014, 11:46
A break, for Keith?? Never…
Little_M_Lo (@pezlo2013)
25th December 2014, 12:26
Absolutely Stella performance from Ricciardo this season.
From setting 11 Laps in Testing, to winning on Sunday Afternoons in June, July, and August. Pass of the Year to go with it too.
Ricciardo is Australia’s World Champion.
Greg-c
25th December 2014, 12:40
Aussie Aussie Aussie -Oi Oi Oi
Merry Xmas all here at F1F
Thanks for a great place to get my F1 fix ,
Congrats DanRic on a worthy win in both polls ,
Been an exciting year watching you race
ForzaAlanRabbit (@jojobudgie)
25th December 2014, 13:10
Merry xmas to all
McL88AsAp (@deongunner)
25th December 2014, 13:34
Now why Hamilton beat Ricciardo alot in DOTW but lose out in DOTY ?? I vote Ricciardo but I’m still confused..
Peter King
25th December 2014, 13:59
Tell me about it mate. Just doesn’t make sense. Skewed me thinks. Happy Christmas, you’all :)
christopheraser
26th December 2014, 1:23
Is every pro Ricciardo article on this website going to have people complaining about the DOTY results until the end of time?
Get over i lads!
Kingshark (@kingshark)
26th December 2014, 15:18
@deongunner
Because Hamilton got some DotW votes which he did not deserve. Austria, for instance.
McL88AsAp (@deongunner)
26th December 2014, 17:16
I think Hamilton DOTW results is overrated, and I’m very agree with you, in USA and Bahrain he did not out-qualified his teammate, and I believe he should’ve been 2nd in Germany and Hungary with that machinery so he maximum 3rd best driver at these weekends. And I have no idea why he got a lot of vote in Austria and beat Rosberg by quite a margin, despite Rosberg out-qualified and out-raced Hamilton. Alonso however, was too underrated in DOTW, he was actually quietly amazing in Austria, Germany and Russia, for me those drives deserve top 3 and perhaps even better
McL88AsAp (@deongunner)
26th December 2014, 17:17
@kingshark
DonSmee (@david-beau)
26th December 2014, 21:29
Because there are more anti-Hamilton fans than Hamilton fans. simple :)
OmarR-Pepper (@)
25th December 2014, 14:52
TV angle, of the same overtake
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x25h8dy_redbull-pass-each-other-at-monza-2014_sport
I’m still looking for the heli-cam
N
25th December 2014, 14:55
I didn’t vote Pass of the Year, since it wasn’t listed. (Bahrain) It was basically Monza on steroids.
OmarR-Pepper (@)
25th December 2014, 14:55
Another one, a little longer, includes one more replay:
http://www.dalealplay.com/videos/Daniel-Ricciardo-vs-Sebastian-Vettel-GP-Italia-2014_552630
Foosa
26th December 2014, 9:14
@omarr-pepper [OT] your earlier avatar is much more relevant now
OmarR-Pepper (@)
25th December 2014, 15:04
Another one… this time it’s a little longer onboard, includes some parallel rear-front angles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCVzpXkPWFY&t=2m23s
lubhz (@lubhz)
29th December 2014, 0:58
yes really good this one, thanks!
Foosa
25th December 2014, 16:59
Lewis fans would disagree with this poll result
ADD (@addimaf1)
25th December 2014, 18:07
urmmmm I’m a Lewis fan, and I agree….. Merry Christmas.
Foosa
26th December 2014, 9:13
@addimaf1 You must be one of the few who had to Keith sir’s driver ratings last week, putting RIC at No.1
ADD (@addimaf1)
26th December 2014, 12:09
No, while I agree that Ricardo should be number 1, in my own opinion Hamilton should have been second and Alonso third so I disagreed with him there, but that’s the thing about opinions, there all different.
Foosa
26th December 2014, 12:14
@addimaf1 I am with you on that one, felt Lewis should have been 2nd. That F14T was built around Alonso, which might have given him a better advantage than Kimi.
Charlie boy
25th December 2014, 19:48
I’m a fan of both disagree with the result but who cares.
Celebrating a world championship for ham and a breakout year for ric
ColdFly F1 (@)
26th December 2014, 9:04
It’s a poll; hard to disagree with unless you can prove it is rigged.
Foosa
26th December 2014, 9:11
No, looking at the backlash Keith sir received on putting Ricciardio at No.1, I expected a similar hue and cry. It beats Lewis fans that how can a WDC not be the DOTY.
ADD (@addimaf1)
25th December 2014, 18:06
On the sky pole this pass was not even in the running and it really annoyed me, glad its won here, it was a hell of a great move. It being against his four time world champion in the same car was the icing on the cake for Ricardo.
juan fanger (@juan-fanger)
27th December 2014, 2:11
And according to Horner, this pass was the straw that broke Vettel’s back and sent him off looking for pastures greener! Fantastic driving from Ricci Bobby.
Scalextric (@scalextric)
25th December 2014, 18:39
Merry Christmas!
I didn’t vote for this pass as it was somewhat DRS related. RIC closed up rapidly behind VET on the front straight in the DRS zone as seen at the start of the clip above. This effectively enabled the pass a couple of chicanes and a curve grande later, so bah humbug from me :-).
BrendanH (@brendanh)
27th December 2014, 2:29
Rubbish!
BaKano (@bakano)
26th December 2014, 7:04
And with this we could conclude any discussion on why you selected him as the #1 ranked driver, @keithcollantine
Or maybe not :-D
Foosa
26th December 2014, 9:12
@bakano You can take the horse to the water, but you cannot make it drink
Kingshark (@kingshark)
26th December 2014, 15:22
I agree mostly with the final results of the Pass of the Year poll, although I feel that Alonso on Vettel at Copse as a better overtake than Hamilton on Vergne in Hungaroring (IMO).
Guybrush Threepwood (@guybrushthreepwood)
27th December 2014, 12:43
I thought Ricciardo on Alonso at COTA would have also been a worthy entry. For me the overtaking move of the year would have been between this – Ricciardo v Vettel @ Monza or Hamilton v Rosberg @ Suzuka.
james
27th December 2014, 16:18
Belgium and Hungary were Mercedes “GIFTS” to Riccardo. Lewis is easily Driver of the Everything in 2014
Guybrush Threepwood (@guybrushthreepwood)
27th December 2014, 21:59
And everything else were Mercedes gifts to Hamilton and Rosberg…
David Earls
28th December 2014, 14:27
Best overtake of the Season by a lap and a half, Hamiltons overtake on Rosberg on the outide at Suzuka breathtaking. As Coultard said, Bravery off the scale!
Even without taking the circumstances into account. Coming out blind behind the spray into his qualifying crash corner. Amazing skill and feel.
Fantastic driving by Ricciardo though, especially the dink to pass the fish at Monza. Very special.
Pink Peril
28th December 2014, 21:37
Just another indicator of the stellar season DannyRic had. Let’s see more of it in 2015 – how many sleeps to go?