Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen are the only two F1 winners in the five weeks of racing and are favored in the early odds for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix at PointsBet Sportsbook. Both are listed at +135 for the overall win.
Hamilton has taken three wins so far this season, at the Bahrain GP, the Portugal GP and the Spain GP.
Verstappen has two victories at the Romagna GP in Imola, Italy, and at the Monaco Grand Prix.
One way to see the American odds is to move the decimal point two places to the left. This allows a bettor to know what he will get on a $ 1 bet, so the return on investment for Hamilton and Verstappen this week is $ 1.35. For bettors more familiar with fractional odds, a bet of +300 is the same as 3/1.
Hamilton clinched a victory at the Azerbaijan GP in 2018. In 2019 he finished second.
This race was canceled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Verstappen’s last attempt in 2019 ended in fourth place.
With +115 Hamilton has a slight advantage over Verstappens +125 in the chances of winning the pole. However, whoever wins the pole should see a deduction from their line as the pole winner is listed at -143 to take the queen.
Hamilton and Verstappen are also favored for setting the fastest lap with a rate of +175. In the final race, Hamilton set the fastest lap despite being stuck in seventh place for most of the day after qualifying was abruptly stopped by a fall by Charles Leclerc.
Valtteri Bottas is third this week with +800. He won the last Azerbaijan GP in 2019 after leading the field on green. If Bottas can beat his teammate Hamilton in a head-to-head match, that’s worth +270.
Sergio Perez is fourth with odds of +1000. Perez has achieved four top five finishes in four races this year, with the best result of four twice in Portugal and Monaco.
The top five is rounded off by Lando Norris, who also has four top five this season. Norris has two podiums in Italy and Monaco.
No other driver is listed with odds lower than 50/1.
At +260, Haas F1 is the team with the greatest chance of retiring first. Nikita Mazepin pulls this quota down to +400 to be the first driver to drive into the garage and not come back.
If there are no retirements, that is +1200. value
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