The 2024 Austrian Grand Prix will be held at Red Bull Ring on Sunday with the green flag scheduled to drop at 9 a.m. ET. Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen will be looking to continue his dominance at his team’s home track. Verstappen has won four of the last six Austrian Grand Prix and he’s won seven of the first 10 races during the 2024 Formula 1 season to open up a 69-point lead in the F1 standings over Lando Norris. However, Norris has mounted serious challenges over the last two months, including scoring his first career F1 victory at the Miami Grand Prix.
Verstappen is the -175 favorite (bet $175 to win $100) in the 2024 Austrian Grand Prix odds but Norris has his shortest odds of the season so far at +260. Charles Leclerc won in Monaco but Ferrari has struggled since and he’s priced at +1600. George Russell and Lewis Hamilton are both +2000 in this week’s F1 odds. Before analyzing the 2024 Austrian Grand Prix starting grid and making any Formula 1 picks, be sure to check out the latest 2024 Austrian GP predictions and betting advice from SportsLine’s proven projection model.
Developed by daily Fantasy pro and SportsLine predictive data engineer Mike McClure, this proprietary Formula 1 prediction model simulates every race 10,000 times, taking into account factors such as track history and recent results. It’s had a strong history of success in motorsports, correctly predicting 19 NASCAR winners since the 2021 season and its projected leaderboards have forecasted winners across multiple racing formats.
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 surprise victory.
The model followed that up by calling Verstappen’s win at the Rolex Emilia Romagna GP in April and then nailed his wins again in Belgium, the Netherlands, Japan, the United States, Mexico and Abu Dhabi. It also nailed all 19 of Verstappen’s wins during the 2023 season and then called all seven of the three-time defending champion’s wins so far in the 2024 season. Anyone who followed the model’s lead on those plays has seen huge returns.
Now, the model has dialed in on the 2024 Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix and just released its coveted picks and leaderboard projections. You can head to SportsLine now to see the 2024 Austrian Grand Prix projected leaderboard.
Top 2024 Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix predictions
One surprise: The model is fading Oscar Piastri, predicting that he barely cracks the top 10 to earn points for his team. McLaren spent 18 months on design changes that it wasn’t able to implement until May and they’ve yielded impressive results. Lando Norris scored his first victory in Miami and has finished second in three of the four races since while Piastri was fourth at Monza when he finally received the updates and the second at Monaco.
However, while Norris continues to challenge Verstappen for wins, Piastri has started to fall off with Mercedes making improvement and Ferrari rebounding from a disastrous run in Montreal. Piastri followed up his podium in Monaco with a fifth-place finish where he was beaten by both Mercedes in Canada and then finished seventh in Spain, where he was beaten by all four of the drivers from Ferrari and Mercedes. See more 2024 Austrian Grand Prix picks right here.
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Instead, the model is targeting a driver going off longer than 30-1 to make a surprising surge up the leaderboard. Anyone who backs him could hit it big. You can find out who he is, and see all of the model’s F1 picks and predictions, at SportsLine.
So who wins the Austrian Grand Prix 2024, and which stunning longshot charges toward the front? Check out the latest 2024 F1 odds below, then visit SportsLine now to see the full projected 2024 Austrian Grand Prix leaderboard, all from the model that nailed all 19 of Verstappen’s wins last season and all seven of his wins in 2024, and find out.
2024 Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix odds, grid, contenders
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Max Verstappen -175
Lando Norris +260
Charles Leclerc +1600
Lewis Hamilton +2000
George Russell +2000
Oscar PIastri +2500
Carlos Sainz +2800
Sergio Perez +3300
Fernando Alonso +25000
Pierre Gasly +50000
Esteban Ocon +50000
Lance Stroll +75000
Yuki Tsunoda +75000
Daniel Ricciardo +75000
Nico Hulkenberg +100000
Alexander Albon +100000
Kevin Magnussen +100000
Valtteri Bottas +150000
Guanyu Zhou +150000
Logan Sargeant +200000
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