Early on, the 2011 Formula 1 season and Formula 1 betting has been reduced to the question, “Who can stop Sebastian Vettel?”
With this in mind, punters seeking to enjoy this weekend’s Chinese Grand Prix might be best advised to bet at the online sportsbooks early and to look in the direction of proposition betting.
Maybe the most telling of just how dominant Vettel appears going into the Chinese Grand Prix in within bet365’s “Driver Specials” proposition bets: The odds on Vettel in the “To Get The Fastest Qualification Time, Fastest Lap In The Race And To Win The Race” is just 4/1. At both bet365 and Sportsbook.com online bookmakers, only one driver aside from Vettel has odds of 4/1 to *win the race outright*, namely Lewis Hamilton.
| Driver | Bet365 | Sportsbook.com |
| Vettel | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| Hamilton | 4/1 | 4/1 |
| Webber | 5/1 | 9/2 |
| Alonso | 8/1 | 8/1 |
| Button | 7/1 | 7/1 |
| Massa | 33/1 | 30/1 |
| Rosberg | 66/1 | 60/1 |
| Shumacher | 66/1 | 60/1 |
| Petrov | 50/1 | 60/1 |
| Heidfeld | 20/1 | 25/1 |
If there’s any hope of outracing a guy who’s won five of his last six and gone post-to-post in both competitions this season, it may lay in the technology. Vettel and the Red Bull team are reportedly still running with an inferior Kers power-boost system.
Though it hasn’t helped McLaren in 2011, this team’s tech is thought to have an advantage in the Chinese Grand Prix, which features long, one-plus kilometer straightaways. Bet365 and Sportsbook.com put McLaren driver Jenson Button at 7/1 to win outright.
A good bet for believers in McLaren is to be found in bet365’s “Each Way Betting.” Choosing Hamilton or Button to finish in the top three currently fetches odds of 4/5 and 7/5, respectively.
And as of Thursday, Vettel is 1/1 at bet365 and Sportsbook.com to win the Chinese Grand Prix outright: Odds that are sure to get shorter as Sunday approaches. Think fast!
The top 10 on the “Outright Winner” table at bet365 and Sportsbook.com are in the table.
Written by Tom Brady Hawkes
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