A seventh world championship title, infected by covid-19, a great commitment to racism and for diversity and by the British voted as the sports personality of the year.
2020 has been meaningful for Lewis Hamilton, who can now also call himself "Sir".
The motorist is one of the many Britons who on the penultimate day of the year receive honorary awards or, like Hamilton, are honored.
Hamilton took eleven GP victories in Formula 1 this year and now has the most partial victories of all time.
His seventh world title also means that he has touched Michael Schumacher's seven World Cup victories in the sport.
But it seems to be at least as much Hamilton's work for equality that is behind the award.
He has been a champion of equality, anti-racism and diversity through his commitment alongside racing.
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He will now be the fourth F1 driver to be ennobled.
Three British F1 drivers have previously been knighted, after the British Stirling Moss and Jackie Stewart and the Australian Jack Brabham.
According to The Guardian, a big question mark has been over Hamilton's possible nobility - that he is written in Monaco for tax reasons.
The newspaper states that Prime Minister Boris Johnson has personally committed himself to overcoming that obstacle.
Other athletes who receive awards from the Queen include footballers Jimmy Greaves, Ron Flowers and Gillian Coultard, all of whom receive the MBE Medal of Honor, the lowest level of medals.
Flowers is the last now alive of all in England's World Cup winning team in 1966 to be honored, Coultard was the first English women's player to play one hundred international matches.
CLIP: Lewis Hamilton secured the World Cup title (November 15, 2020)
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Lewis Hamilton.
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A total of 1,239 people receive an award.
In addition to politicians and people in the entertainment industry, 123 people working in health care are honored this year.
In the entertainment industry, the Oscar-winning film photographer Roger Deakins ("1917", "Skyfall", "Fargo") and the actor and charity worker Sheila Hancock, both of whom are honored.
Actor Lesley Manville - who in the coming seasons of the TV series "The crown" will play Princess Margaret - is awarded the imperial order CBE, Commander of the British Empire, and colleague Toby Jones receives the slightly lower grade OBE, Order of the British Empire.
Singer Craig David and Jed Mercurio, who are behind the TV series "Line of duty", are each awarded an MBE.
CLIP: Here Hamilton writes history - passes Schumacher (October 25, 2020)
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Lewis Hamilton took the 92nd victory - alone on the throne.
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