The 2023 Formula 1 season will continue on Sunday with the 2023 Monaco Grand Prix on the Circuit de Monaco, a street circuit almost entirely contained within the affluent Monte Carlo neighborhood. The race will begin at 9 a.m. ET and Red Bull Racing enters having won the first five races of the season. Max Verstappen has won three times and sits atop the 2023 F1 standings while Carlos Perez has two wins and is only 14 points off of Verstappen's pace with Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso a whopping 30 points behind Perez. Verstappen is the +125 favorite (risk $100 to win $125) in the 2023 Monaco Grand Prix odds from Caesars Sportsbook while Perez is priced at +350. Ferrari's Charles Leclerc, who was born in Monte Carlo, is at +400 while Alonso is at +600

SportsLine's proven computer projection model simulated the Monaco GP 2023 10,000 times and came up with a surprising leaderboard.

Developed by daily Fantasy pro and SportsLine predictive data engineer Mike McClure, this proprietary Formula 1 prediction model takes into account a slew of factors including track history and recent results.

The model has been scorching hot when it comes to picking Formula 1 race events dating back to 2021. It nailed both of Leclerc's wins in 2022, and at the 2021 Mexican Grand Prix, the model was strongly backing Verstappen as its top pick. The result: Verstappen dominated the field and ran away with a surprising victory. 

It followed that up by calling Verstappen's win at the Rolex Emilia Romagna GP in April and nailed Verstappen to win in Belgium, the Netherlands, Japan, the United States, Mexico and Abu Dhabi. It also called Verstappen's victories in Bahrain, Australia and Miami to start the 2023 season. Anyone who followed the model's lead on those plays has seen HUGE returns!

The Monaco Grand Prix has been held since 1929 and it is considered the crown jewel of the Formula 1 schedule. Monte Carlo is one of the wealthiest and most densely populated neighborhoods in the world, so the 19-turn, 2.074-mile street circuit winds through incredibly close quarters with the race spanning a multitude of surfaces. It is arguably the most challenging track in world racing and passing is extraordinarily difficult, making qualifying even more critical than usual. 

Now, the model has dialed in on the 2023 Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix and just released its coveted picks and leaderboard projections. 

We can tell you the model is high on Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton, even though he's a 25-1 longshot. Hamilton is currently fourth in the F1 standings with 56 points and has been arguably the biggest surprise of the F1 season outside of Alonso after a disappointing sixth-place finish in the 2022 Formula One standings. Hamilton has been top six in all five races this year, collecting a podium with a second-place finish in Australia. He's also a three-time winner of the Monaco Grand Prix with 15 races under his belt on the Circuit de Monaco and that experience should be valuable.

The model is also targeting one driver getting triple-digit Monaco Grand Prix odds to make a serious charge up the leaderboard! Anyone who backs this driver could hit it BIG. You ABSOLUTELY need to see who he is before locking in any Formula 1 Monaco GP picks of your own.

So who wins the 2023 Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix? And which SERIOUS long shot might be in contention? ... Join SportsLine right now to see the full projected F1 Monaco GP leaderboard, all from the model that has nailed its racing picks last year, and find out!