Lotus took a share in three awards at the 2015 Model F1 end-of-season ceremony, all of them voted for by the community.

We were voted outright winners of the Best Social Media award, shared the Livery Of The Year with Ferrari and Band B was voted as the most entertaining bracket – with Sauber, BRM and Toro Rosso battling ourselves throughout the year.

It was a busy night for team principal /u/OneAnimeBatman, who didn’t spend much time in his seat in the early part of the awards as he was up on the podium making acceptance speeches.

“Thank you so much,” he said while accepting the social media award.

“I want to thank /u/Guildo and /u/jspennington for all their hard work on our blog, they work so hard and it’s great to see their hard work appreciated,” he added.

After the livery award was shared with Ferrari, he said:

“I want to congratulate our colleagues at Ferrari for their award and also a big thank you to our head of livery design /u/seventhsleeper for all his hard work.”

Band B went right down to the wire and although we just lost out in the final reckoning to Sauber, the battle throughout the season provided plenty of entertainment and drama.

“We had a great fight with Sauber and Toro Rosso, It was a close run thing and led to a lot of memorable racing,” OneAnimeBatman said.

Elsewhere, before Sebastian Vettel was handed trophies for winning the title and claiming most poles and McLaren were rewarded with their Constructors trophy, Felipe Nasr was named as the most improved driver and Max Verstappen the young driver of the year.

We had high hopes that Roberto Merhi might feature somewhere in the reckoning for those latter two awards but both Felipe and Max are worthy winners.

Once again, a huge thank you to everyone involved in MF1 – particularly /u/wwesmudge for his hard work – and the community as a whole – especially those of you who voted for us.

Congratulations to all the winners.