British GP Weekend

The undoubted highlight of this weekend is the British GP which as usual has more than a whiff of controversy surrounding it, with disagreements on the use of blown diffusers.

Hopefully, my predictions will be better than last week's effort with only three correct forecasts led by Novak Djokovic's success at Wimbledon.  This resulted in a loss of £4.50 on the week which also equates to the overall losses on the blog.

This will be the first GP at Silverstone since re-development began and so this is going to be a fairly new experience for all of the teams and drivers.  Whilst I'd love to see a British team and driver win, realistically I can't see past the Red Bulls but I don't think Vettel's consistency and reliability will last for a ninth race so I'm going for his Aussie teammate Mark Webber to win with Lewis Hamilton to make the podium.

Meanwhile the Tour de France continues and it has been a mixed week for the Brits with Wiggins having to withdraw following his crash yesterday but Cavendish having won two stages in week one taking his overall tally of stage victories to 17 placing him in the Top 10 of all time - not bad in only his fourth tour!  For today's eighth stage it looks like it is going to favour the strongmen and I'm predicting Gilbert to repeat his victory from last Saturday and Sanchez to make the top 3.

It is the last of the one day series cricket between England and Sri Lanka and all to play for so I'm going for a narrow England win.  The women's World Football Cup has reached the quarter final stage in Germany and my predictions for today's games are England to defeat France with Germany beating Japan.

My final predictions are in the Engage Superleague where I'm forecasting Wigan to win at Harlequins, Catalans to beat Leeds in France and for Bradford to triumph at Castleford.

In summary the predictions are as follows:

British GP

Webber to win at 7/1
Hamilton to podium at Evens

Tour de France Stage 8

Gilbert to win at 8/1
Sanchez to make top 3 at 6/1

ODI Cricket

England to beat Sri Lanka in Game 5 at 8/11

Women's Football World Cup

England to beat France at 11/5
Germany to defeat Japan at 6/19

Engage Superleague

Wigan to win at Harlequins at 1/10
Catalans to beat Leeds at 4/7
Bradford to defeat Castleford at 9/11