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I thought that I had spotted some value in the winning margin market. Bet365 are offering Evens that the winning margin in Sunday’s race will be greater than six seconds. The average winning margin around Magny-Cours in the last ten years is 9.97 seconds. Continue reading…

Fresh from his podium finish in Canada, David Coulthard can be backed at 9/4 to steer his Red Bull to some more world championship points this weekend. Given his record at the circuit and Red Bull’s steady progress throughout this season, that might just be worth a punt. Continue reading…

Here is the betting data sheet for the forthcoming French Grand Prix. The key difference between this race and the last one in Canada, has to be the scarcity of the Safety Car. It is also interesting to note the mastery that David Coulthard held over one lap of this circuit for the five years between 1998 and 2002.

Title: French Grand Prix Data Sheet | Format: PDF | Filesize: 85.6kb

Although the times may not exactly be desperate for Lewis Hamilton, his grid-penalty for Magny-Cours means that he will have to call on some reasonably unorthodox measures, to take anything worthwhile from the coming weekend. Continue reading…

I’ve jumped in early and taken up to 11/8 about Kimi Raikonnen to win in Magny-Cours. He could have been backed at 6/4, but I missed the price (but I will be keeping an eye out for the rest of the week). Continue reading…

Lewis Hamilton is odds-on for victory following his highly impressive qualifying performance at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. As I type, he is currently trading at around 1.64 – 1.65 on Betfair and at that price I feel that he has to be opposed. There is no doubt about his ability to wring a lap from his McLaren around here, but all of the press reaction subsequent to qualifying has been about his ‘dominance’ over the other drivers and I think that this, in part, is responsible for such an unattractively short price. Continue reading…

At a tough track like the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, it is always worth taking a look at markets based on drivers finishing, or not finishing the race. In the last ten years just 59.34% of the cars that lined up on the grid have been classified by the FIA at the finish of the race. Assuming that twenty cars line up on Sunday, we can roughly predict that on a historic-basis, twelve of them should be classified. Continue reading…

This week’s data sheet for the Canadian Grand Prix… The statistics for the Safety Car and the number of retirements gives us an insight into what we can expect to see on Sunday, particularly with the potential for rain being forecast.

Title: Canadian Grand Prix Data Sheet | Format: PDF | Filesize: 84.4kb

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