Japanese Grand Prix Odds

The Japanese Grand Prix Odds has Britain's Lewis Hamilton as clear favourite ahead of Sunday's crucial race. McLaren's, Hamilton threw down a challenge to his main world championship rival Felipe Massa in the opening practice for the Japanese Grand Prix, Hamilton was fastest with the car looking in excellent shape. Hamilton's best lap of 1min 18.910secs came with 25 minutes of the 90-minute session remaining, and the 23-year-old sensation was on course to quicker with five minutes left before driving a little too wide at the chicane on turn 10. He will not make this mistake again.

Massa, who drives for Ferrari, trails Hamilton by seven points in the world championship race with just three Grand Prix's remaining, was 0.153 seconds behind Hamilton in second place despite not completing a recorded lap for the first third of the session.

McLarens other driver and Hamilton's teammate Heikki Kovalainen was in third while reigning world champion Kimi Raikkonen for Ferrari, and Renault's Fernando Alonso, winner last week in the Singapore Grand Prix, were fourth and fifth respectively.

It was current world champion Raikkonen who dominated the first half of the practice before Hamilton, driving brilliantly, knocked him off spot and Hamilton is now favourite to claim the crucial pole position.

Unsurprisingly it was McLaren and Ferrari who claimed the top four spots on the timesheets exclusively in the last 30 minutes of the session. The opening session was largely incident-free, with the only yellow flag caused by a gentle spin by BMW Sauber's Nick Heidfeld at the tricky turn 10 in the closing stages.

The betting for the race has Hamilton at 13/6 with Massa around the 2/1 mark. Raikkonen is next at around 11/2, Alonso 12/1, Kovalainen 16/1, Kubica 25/1, Vettel 28/1. Hamilton remains at 1/3 to win the championship, while Massa is a 3/1 bet.

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