The 2024 Austrian Grand Prix will take place this Sunday at Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Austria. The lights will go out at 9 a.m. ET and Max Verstappen will be looking to guide Red Bull Racing to another win in its home grand prix. Verstappen has already won this race a record four times and he's opened up a 69-point lead in the F1 standings after collecting another victory in Spain last week.

Verstappen is the -175 favorite (bet $175 to win $100) in the 2024 Austrian Grand Prix odds. However, McLaren's Lando Norris (+260) has been pressing the pace over the last couple races and has had four runner-up finishes and a win in his last six starts. Meanwhile, Ferrari's Charles Leclerc is priced at +1600 while George Russell and Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes are both listed at +2000. Oscar PIastri (+2500) and Carlos Sainz (+2800) are the only other drivers going off lower than +3000.

SportsLine's proven computer projection model simulated the Austrian GP 2024 10,000 times and come 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 Charles 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 all 19 of Verstappen's wins during the 2023 season and nailed each of his seven wins in 2024! Anyone who followed the model's lead on those plays has seen HUGE returns!

The Red Bull Ring originally opened as the Österreichring in 1969 and it was reopened in 2011 after it was purchased by Red Bull and underwent a 70 million Euro reconstruction. Formula 1 then returned to the famed 10-turn, 2.683-mile circuit in 2014. Verstappen has won four of the last six grand prix at Red Bull Ring but Valtteri Bottas (twice), Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc are also past winners who will be on the 2024 Austrian Grand Prix starting grid. 

Now, the model has dialed in on the 2024 Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix and just released its coveted picks and leaderboard projections. 

We can tell you the model is fading Oscar Piastri, predicting that he barely finishes top 10! McLaren got off to a horrible start in 2024 and decided to roll the dice on some major changes. Because of the sudden nature of the design changes, the team only had time to outfit Lando Norris' car before the Miami Grand Prix and Norris went on to collect his first career F1 victory.

Piastri's car was outfitted two weeks later and he went on to finish fourth at Monza and then finished second in Monaco. However, while Norris has continued to challenge at the front of the pack, Piastri has been sliding back in the field. He finished fifth in the Canadian Grand Prix and then was seventh last week in the Spanish Grand Prix. Piastri finished 16th in Austria last year and the model predicts he finishes eighth this week despite being sixth on the odds board.

Instead, the model is also targeting one driver going off longer than 30-1 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 Austrian GP picks of your own.

So who wins the 2024 Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix, and which SERIOUS longshot could be in contention? ... Join SportsLine right now to see the full projected Austrian GP leaderboard, all from the model that nailed all 26 of Verstappen's wins since last season, and find out!