Posted: December 9, 2024, 03:05h.
Last updated: December 10, 2024 02:59h.
Lewis Hamilton on Monday ended 12 years with Mercedes, the team with which he won six F1 titles, as he prepares to move to Ferrari for the 2025 season.
Lewis Hamilton ends his 12-year F1 career with Mercedes. (Image: Remy Steiner/Getty Images for IWC).
Lewis’ time at Mercedes was the most successful between driver and team in F1 history.
McLaren wins team title
There was written a lot About how difficult this move was for Hamilton. This decision, announced in February, undoubtedly had an impact on the F1 team’s performance this season, finishing fourth in the constructors’ standings with just four wins.
Nevertheless, according to Associated Pressthe soon-to-be 40-year-old’s last race ended on a heartfelt note behind the wheel of a Mercedes car.
We were dreaming alone, but we believed together,” Hamilton told race engineer Peter Bonnington and team principal Toto Wolff over the radio. “Thank you for all the courage, determination and passion that met me and supported me. What started as a leap of faith turned into a journey into the history books.”
Meanwhile, the F1 season came to an end over the weekend, with Lando Norris taking the checkered flag for his fourth win of the season at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, with McLaren clinching the constructors’ championship. This was the team’s first constructors’ championship since 1998.
F1 Futures has been announced for 2025, and Norris is +180 favorite to win the drivers’ title. draft kingsThis year’s champion, Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen, is at +225, followed by Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc at +450 and Hamilton at +600.
UFC 310 Results: Pantoja wins by a landslide
Betting favorite Alexandre Pantoja (29-5-0) lived up to expectations in his flyweight title fight at UFC 310 in Las Vegas on Saturday, defeating Kai Asakura via second-round submission. Following the fight, Pantoja, as per tradition, named his next challenger, but did not mention Brandon Roybal, whom he has defeated twice, including by unanimous decision a year ago, or Brandon Moreno, who has also lost twice. Ta.
Instead, after the fight, he called out former UFC flyweight champion Demetrius Johnson, who retired earlier this year. Johnson is considered one of the best MMA fighters of all time, finishing his career with a 25-4-1 record and dominating the UFC flyweight division from 2012 to 2017.
Pantoja is currently tied with Johnson for the most wins in the UFC at flyweight with 13.
Johnson later told X that he was offered $2 million to fight, but he turned it down because he had no desire to return. But something strange happened.
Meanwhile, at UFC 311 to be held on January 18th at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California, two title fights will be held next, led by Islam Makhachev, who will defend his title and face No. 1 in the world rankings, Arman. A fierce lightweight battle with Tsarukyan will take place.
Makhachev is said to be the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the UFC. ESPN rankingsHe last defeated Dustin Poirier by submission in June of last year. In the second bout of the feature, Merab Dvalishvili will defend his bantamweight title against No. 2 ranked Umar Nurmagomedov.
early odds betmgm Makhachev is the favorite at -278, Tsarukyan is +220. In the other main, Nurmagomedov wins at -250 and Dvalishvili wins at +200.
Allen’s great performance against the Rams changes MVP odds
Sure, they lost 44-42 to the Los Angeles Rams — the highest-scoring game of the NFL season — but Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen earned a new spot in the NFL MVP file with a 6-TD performance. Added a stamp. Allen scored three times through the air and three times rushing, becoming the first player in NFL history to do so. Allen’s second-half performance included four scores and completing 22 of 37 passes for 342 yards and no interceptions.
The Bills, who had already clinched the AFC East title, could not extend their winning streak to eight with this loss.
According to pointsbet canadaThe Bills are a popular betting option for bettors in Ontario due to the team’s proximity, and Allen’s MVP odds increased from -200 to -400 after Sunday’s game.
“Most of the bets are on Allen. Most of the handles are on Lamar (Jackson). The biggest liability is on Saquon (Barkley),” said a fellow trader.
Allen is currently -400 on DraftKings.
“Josh Allen has been great all season, but he really broke out yesterday with six total touchdowns and over 400 yards of offense. Saquon Barkley (+450) also had a historic season. , and is still in the race, but this has become a quarterback award and I think Josh Allen is the one to lose at this point,” Director of Sports Operations Johnny Abello said. DraftKings.
and this is NFL betting odds Front from BetVictor:
Josh Allen is currently 1/4 (-400) away from winning the regular season MVP, but he was 2/5 (-250) last week and looks to be in a head-to-head battle with Barkley, who is currently 9/2. It is showing. Shot (+450),” BetVictor trader Glenn Hyslop said. “Saquon traded at 200/1 (+20000) and the highest price Allen was traded at was 8/1 (+800).”