The 2024 Hungarian Grand Prix will take place this Sunday at Hungaroring in the village of Mogyoród just outside of Budapest and this will be the first race of a two-week stretch of Formula 1 action before a month-long break begins. The lights will go out at 9 a.m. ET and Mercedes will be looking to continue its momentum after scoring back-to-back wins at the Austrian Grand Prix and the British Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton ended a career-long 61-race winless drought with a victory at Silverstone last week while George Russell was the victor in Austria.

Now both Hamilton and Russell are priced at +800 in the 2024 Hungarian Grand Prix odds as Mercedes looks to make it three in a row. Meanwhile, three-time defending champion and current points leader Max Verstappen is the -110 favorite (bet $110 to win $100) on this week's board while McLaren's Lando Norris is priced at +320 with his team also showing improved racing form over the last two months.

SportsLine's proven computer projection model simulated the Hungarian 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!

Hungaroring opened in 1986 and the 14-turn, 2.722-mile circuit brought Formula 1 back to the country for the first time since 1936. Hamilton is an eight-time Hungarian GP winner and he'll have a chance to match a record he set last week when he became the first driver to win an individual grand prix (the British Grand Prix) nine times. However, Verstappen is the two-time defending champion of the Hungarian Grand Prix and he's well on his way to a fourth consecutive world championship with an 84-point lead over Norris in the current F1 standings.

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

We can tell you the model is fading George Russell, predicting that he barely finishes top five! After the victory in Austria, Russell won the pole at Silverstone last week and looked poised to become the first back-to-back winner besides Verstappen and Hamilton since Charles Leclerc did it in 2019. 

However, Russell slipped back in the field because of pit strategy when the rain began to fall and was eventually retired on Lap 34 because of a suspected water system issue. Russell's only had one podium finish outside of his victory this season and, even with Mercedes' renewed optimism, it's hard to back him as one of the favorites with only one podium finish (third in 2022) in five career Hungarian Grand Prix starts.

Instead, the model is also targeting one driver with double-digit 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 British GP picks of your own.

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