Thread: Driver of the Year 2007 - The Results

I've compiled the results of the voting now.

Here are the top fives in each category:

Driver of the Year
1. Kimi R?ikk?nen - Formula 1 - 54.0%
2. Lewis Hamilton - Formula 1 - 13.8%
3. Jeff Gordon - NASCAR - 13.8%
4. Sebastien Bourdais - ChampCar - 4.4%
5. Timo Glock - GP2 - 3.2%

Young Driver of the Year
1. Sebastian Vettel - Formula 1 - 40.6%
2. Romain Grosjean - Formula 3 - 15.7%
3. Marcus Ericsson - Formula BMW - 10.2%
4. Sebastien Buemi - Formula 3 - 10.2%
5. Maximo Cortes - Formula 3 - 8.2%

Open Wheel Driver of the Year
1. Kimi R?ikk?nen - Formula 1 - 43.5%
2. Lewis Hamilton - Formula 1 - 12.2%
3. Romain Grosjean - Formula 3 - 10.9%
4. Alvaro Parente - World Series by Renault - 8.9%
5. Sebastien Bourdais - ChampCar - 8.4%

Stock car / Sportscar / Touring car Driver of the Year
1. Mattias Ekstr?m - DTM - 29.0%
2. Andy Priaulx - WTCC - 19.6%
3. Toni Vilander - FIA GT - 19.1%
4. Jeff Gordon - NASCAR - 11.9%
5. Jimmie Johnson - NASCAR - 7.5%

Karting Driver of the Year
1. Marco Ardigo - KF1 - 25.1%
2. Jack Harvey - KF3 - 19.0%
3. Michael K. Christensen - KF1 - 10.8%
4. Jonathan Thonon - KZ1 - 9.4%
5. Matias Laine - KF1 - 8.8%

Surprise Driver of the Year
1. Lewis Hamilton - Formula 1 - 38.3%
2. Sebastian Vettel - Formula 1 - 20.0%
3. Adrian Sutil - Formula 1 - 12.6%
4. Marcus Ericsson - Formula BMW - 6.0%
5. Brendon Hartley - Formula Renault 2.0 - 5.7%

http://www.driverdb.com/drivers-of-the-year/

No mention of Dario Franchitti or any IRL driver in there. Im upset and suprised.

Not enough US votes I guess.

Originally Posted by EIR Loe.307

Not enough US votes I guess.

There were quite a fair number of US voters actually (70% of the site's traffic is U.S. based). The interesting thing is that the U.S. voters didn't seem to have a long enough attention span to vote for anything other than the first category though.

Originally Posted by Driverdb

There were quite a fair number of US voters actually (70% of the site's traffic is U.S. based). The interesting thing is that the U.S. voters didn't seem to have a long enough attention span to vote for anything other than the first category though.

Aaaaaahhhhh hahahahahaha!!! Maybe that explains the Oval track thing. Not too many turns to get lost.

Originally Posted by EIR Loe.307

Aaaaaahhhhh hahahahahaha!!! Maybe that explains the Oval track thing. Not too many turns to get lost.

Hey, I love ovals!

Dario may not of gotten this voting but he did win this...

2007 IndyCar Series champion Dario Franchitti was honored with a first-team award in the open-wheel category. The reigning Indinapolis 500 winner also won the Jerry Titus Award as the All-America Team's top vote-getter. It is the third time in the last four years that the IndyCar Series winner has won the Titus Award, which is AARWBA's highest honor.

Originally Posted by DanicaRules

Hey, I love ovals!

Ya, but you're coming around.

Originally Posted by JoStream

Interesting results, some of them were of course expected. But what surprised me is that Lewis Hamilton was not chosen as 'Surprise of the Year' by what would be considered an overwhelming majority...

I agree. Perhaps people were expecting him to perform well and weren't that surprised. But I guess the real reason might be that he for some reason became highly controversial during the season and now has a large group of people who'll vote for anyone other than him....

And one reason could be that people think that he will get enough votes anyway, "let's give another driver a vote too".