The 2024 Canadian Grand Prix will take place this Sunday at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal. The lights will go out at 2 p.m. ET and the intensity is ratcheting up with Max Verstappen and Red Bull Racing's early leads in the F1 standings constricting. The Monaco Grand Prix was a disaster for the most dominant team in racing with Sergio Perez retired and Verstappen finishing sixth. Now Charles Leclerc has cut Verstappen's lead to 31 points and Ferrari is only 24 points behind Red Bull in the constructors' standings.

However, Verstappen is still the three-time defending world champion and he's the -200 favorite (bet $200 to win $100) in the 2024 Canadian Grand Prix odds after winning in Montreal the last two seasons. Leclerc is priced at +500 in the F1 at Montreal odds after his win in Monaco and McLaren's Lando Norris is +550 with his team also looking like serious challengers over the last month.

SportsLine's proven computer projection model simulated the Canadian 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 five wins in 2024! Anyone who followed the model's lead on those plays has seen HUGE returns!

The Circuit Gilles Villeneuve is an FIA Grade I track owned by the city of Montreal built on Notre Dame Island in the middle of the Saint Lawrence River. It has been the exclusive home of the Canadian Grand Prix since 1978, with exceptions in 1987, 2009, 2020 and 2021 when the race wasn't held. It's been a difficult few years for Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes but he's a seven-time Canadian Grand Prix winner and is tied with Michael Schumacher for the all-time record. Hamilton is eighth in the F1 standings and Mercedes has fallen to fourth as a constructor without a podium finish in 2024.

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

We can tell you the model is high on Alexander Albon, predicting a points finish for a +340 payout! The 28-year-old Thai and British driver races for Williams-Mercedes and he's in his sixth full-time season in Formula 1. Albon finished top-10 in the F1 standings his first two seasons while racing primarily for Red Bull Racing but he was replaced by Sergio Perez prior to the 2021 season and has been with Williams ever since.

Albon had three finishes in the points during his first season with Williams and finished 19th in the standings but rebounded to put together seven top-10 finishes (the points threshold) in 2023 and finished 13th. That was the best finish for a Williams driver since 2017. He got off to a sluggish start in 2024 but is coming off a ninth-place finish in Monaco and the model is predicting another ninth-place finish in Montreal this weekend.

Instead, the model is also targeting one driver going off longer than 50-1 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 Canadian GP picks of your own.

So who wins the 2024 Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix, and which SERIOUS longshot could be in contention? ... Join SportsLine right now to see the full projected Canadian GP leaderboard, all from the model that nailed all 19 of Verstappen's wins last season, and find out!