British Grand Prix Betting 2009
2009 British Grand Prix Bodes Well for Button
Free bets fans with a particular passion for Formula One will be positively salivating at the prospect of the forthcoming British GP in July. Not one, but two British drivers have the chance of taking the chequered flag this year, thanks to the rapid emergence of Jenson Button on the scene to rival Lewis Hamilton. Of course, when we say rival, we obviously mean embarrass. At least in terms of the simplicity of his victories thus far in #Formula One 2009#. either way great news for British Formula One fans, and equally exciting news for the gamut of online punters eager to lend their support to our flag waving boys behind the snap-on steering wheels.
Naturally, not everyone's over the moon with the way things have panned out thus far. As Jenson Button's early wins must surely have been at the expense of many online bookmakers, who before the season began in Australia wouldn't have given Jenson Button and the Brawn Team a hope in haydees; despite rumours to the contrary ruminating from informed manufacturer's camps before the season opener. That said, there were plenty of canny punters amongst the online free bet-savvy community who must have seen the potential dream ticket and backed a winner in the making.
Jenson Button looks To Cement Position With British GP Victory.
Anyway, always feverishly anticipated within the motor sport community - and therein its immense global fan base - the wider interest generated by this year’s FIA British Grand Prix is set to break previous box office records by and large thanks to this one key factor. Jenson Button. For the first time since the 1950s heyday, us Brits have not one, but two F1 drivers eyeing up the one Grand Prix prize that means more to those with a British passport than any other, and the accolades that a home victory would give them in every quarter.
Much has already been made of this season’s resurgence of former Honda driver Jenson Button, whether that be in terms of his new-found application to the job in hand, or the much less contentious issue regarding him being handed the clearly superior Brawn GP car that’s finally doing his talking for him; and more than just idle chit chat emanating from the pit lanes as has marred his image in the eyes of many F1 fans hitherto.
Jenson Button's Coming Of Age Puts Hamilton In The Shade Ahead Of 2009 British Grand Prix.
If last season’s F1 campaign was all about ‘man of the moment’ Lewis Hamilton (yup, anyone remember him?) then the 2009 FIA Driver’s Championship is being dominated by seemingly incredulous banter centering around one-time F1 playboy, and potential star of the future, Jenson Button. While the endless debate rages on whether or not his return to prominence is down to his skill set or the tool of his trade, there’s no doubting that his opportunistic mantra has come to the fore for all the right reasons this time.
As this time last year Lewis Hamilton was lapping up the F1 limelight, the forgotten man who doggedly donned the Honda race suit, Jenson Button, was arguably pleased to be turning up and going through the motions. fast forward 12 months however, and the tables have been well and truly turned as the golden boy of Formula One is now effectively being once, twice, three times lapped by the previous saviour and great British hope for F1 successes and baton carrying duties.
In a reversal of fortunes, Button has found himself in pole position since the first race of the current season in Melbourne, and the Australian GP where he went from the front of the grid to the top of the podium and hasn’t as yet looked back in anger. Hamilton on the other hand is bordering on the disconsolate as he wonders exactly where it all went wrong after taking the F1 title in some degree of style – albeit in the aftermath of a nail biting finale – in 2008.
Button And Hamilton Set To Go Head-To-Head In Formula One's Battle Of Britain
Citing new rule changes imposed as well as the technically mechanically superior advent of Brawn GP, the newbie team that effectively bought out Honda during the close season after the Japanese manufacturer became engulfed in financial difficulties due to the global economic slowdown, the defending Driver’s Champion is so far off the pace this term that it’s almost farcical, where it not so embarrassing. Not to mention tantamount to insulting, given the hard fought status Hamilton has achieved in such a short space of time, that’s being eroded in each and every race he’s now ‘competing’ in courtesy of the sub-standard F1 car he has as his disposal this time of asking.
But there’s the issue, and possibly the crux of the matter. It’s difficult to determine who is the better the driver, and ascertain which man is equipped with the greater talent given that the playing field in which they’re both challenging is far from even. Without entering into libellous territory, it’s fair to allude that Button has for the most part of his F1 career to date been hampered by the cars he’s been placed behind the snap-off wheel of; thus the jury still being out on his actual skill set, despite boasting an impressive pre-F1 CV. It may not have got in the way of him adopting a lifestyle which would give many of the so-called rich and famous a run for their money, yet who can really begrudge him for assuming the role and flaunting the trappings that are indicative of any Formula One star worth their salt.
And then there’s Hamilton. Again, rising through the pre-F1 ranks with much gusto and aplomb, he gate crashed the F1 circuit and made a name for himself virtually overnight. However, when shoe-horned into a competition-defying McLaren F1 car that would sweep away all that dared cross its path, it could be argued that the machine outweighed the man’s natural talents.
We’re sure many commentators and Formula One fans alike would like to see both Button and Hamilton line up on a grid in similarly set up cars for a definitive head to head encounter, to settle the unanswered question once and for all. Sadly that day isn’t on any approaching horizon, so the forthcoming British GP will only seek to offer the former the glory on a plate, whilst the later consoles himself with the runner-up prize at best.
