There has been a massive shift in focus in the build up to this weekends Hungarian Grand Prix with 80% of bets taken by William Hill for the Ferrari boys with Alonso attracting almost 75% of all bets placed.
Lewis Hamilton’s girlfriend, Pussycat Dolls lead singer Nicole Scherzinger, released a new song recently entitled Baby Can’t Drive. Ironic given Hamilton crashed in German Grand Prix practice.
Ahead of the German Grand Prix this weekend, the Red Bull pairing of Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber are 15/8 favourite and 5/2 second favourite respectively.
Mark Webber turned anger into an astonishing British Grand Prix win as Red Bull team-mate Sebastian Vettel again failed to convert pole into victory. Vettel sustained a puncture after making the faintest of contact with Lewis Hamilton on the first corner during an enthralling start in front of a 120,000-strong crowd at a sunny Silverstone.
Red Bull Racing were in a league of their own as Sebastian Vettel claimed a stunning pole position for Sunday’s British Grand Prix.
Lewis Hamilton arrives at Silverstone for the British Grand Prix as the leader of the F1 drivers’ championship, having followed consecutive victories in Istanbul and Montreal with a second place at the European grand prix. His British team-mate and the reigning world champion, Jenson Button, is just behind him as McLaren lead the constructors’ battle in a compelling season.
Lewis Hamilton is back on top of the Formula One standings for the first time in 18 months after a stunning Canadian Grand Prix win.
Mark Webber is 8/11 with Stan James for the Turkish Grand Prix having given Red Bull their 7th successive pole in Turkey earlier this afternoon.
William Hill rate Sebastian Vettel as their 13/8 favourite to qualify on pole in Monaco and he is 11/5 to win the race. The big teams are worried about getting stuck in traffic and Hills offer 6/4 that one of the top eight cars fails to make it into final qualifying but 11/10 that they all make it.
Mark Webber became the first driver to win from pole this season as the Spanish Grand Prix lived up to its notoriously dull reputation until late catastrophe struck Lewis Hamilton.
