Lights out for the Canadian Grand Prix is scheduled for 4:00pm ET on Apple TV<\/p>\n
George Russell starts on pole and attempts to win the Canadian Grand Prix for the second straight season<\/p>\n
Our model sees sneaky plus-money value on Alexander Albon despite the Williams driver rolling off just 18th<\/p>\n
This is our seventh column of the week. At this point the spreadsheets have developed sentience and my keyboard is researching workers\u2019 compensation eligibility.<\/p>\n
Still, the Formula 1 circus rolls onward into Montreal for the Canadian Grand Prix, where the Mercedes duo spent Saturday looking less like teammates and more like two shoppers fighting over the last discounted television on Black Friday.<\/p>\n
George Russell won the sprint race from pole position, holding off Lando Norris, while rambunctious second-year driver Kimi Antonelli completed the podium after a couple spirited on-track dustups with his veteran teammate. Whether it\u2019s the beginning of a long-term Mercedes civil war or whether team boss Toto Wolff held an emergency \u201ceverybody calm down before HR gets involved\u201d meeting afterward remains to be seen. Either way, we\u2019re watching closely.<\/p>\n
Russell later backed it up with a ridiculous qualifying lap to secure pole position for Sunday\u2019s Grand Prix, and the Brit will now attempt to win the Canadian Grand Prix for the second consecutive season. Let\u2019s make some bets before another safety car detonates somebody\u2019s betting slip.<\/p>\n
Canadian Grand Prix Race Winner Odds<\/p>\n
George Russell enters Sunday as the Canadian Grand Prix favorite at +125, implying a 44.4% chance to win, while Mercedes teammate Kimi Antonelli checks in right behind him at +165, implying a 37.7% win probability.<\/p>\n
Bettors who live regions where Kalshi <\/a>operates can find better prices on several races in the outright markets, including Kimi Antonelli (33\u00a2, equal to +203), Lando Norris (13\u00a2, equal to +669), Lewis Hamilton (5\u00a2, equal to +1900), and Max Verstappen (4\u00a2, equal to +2400). <\/p>\n Click \u201cPredict\u201d to claim SBD\u2019s exclusive Kalshi referral code<\/a>. <\/p>\n Canadian Grand Prix Predictions<\/p>\n Alexander Albon over Esteban Ocon (+150, DraftKings<\/a>) Our algorithm has all three drivers finishing 16th on average, which is objectively absurd but also the sort of thing that happens when you feed thousands of data points into a spreadsheet at 1:30 in the morning. Math, am I right?<\/p>\n Carlos Sainz Jr. starts 15th, Esteban Ocon rolls off 17th, and our hero Alexander Albon begins 18th after a frustrating qualifying effort.<\/p>\n The interesting part is that all three drivers have been tightly grouped throughout nearly every practice and qualifying speed metric this weekend. Albon has also hit approximately one more groundhog than the rest of the field combined, but unfortunately I don\u2019t currently have a \u201cwoodland creature incident adjustment\u201d built into the model.<\/p>\n At plus-money prices, we\u2019re more than happy to take Albon in matchups our numbers essentially price as coin flips.<\/p>\n Pierre Gasly over Oliver Bearman (-130, DraftKings)<\/p>\n We have Pierre Gasly projected to finish 13.0 on average, while Oliver Bearman checks in at 15.0. That may not sound enormous to normal human beings, but in Formula 1 matchup betting, a two-position gap in the model is meaningful edge territory.<\/p>\n Gasly rolls off 14th, with Bearman starting 16th, giving us both the stronger projection and the better grid position. That\u2019s usually a pretty pleasant combination unless strategy departments begin spinning giant carnival wheels during pit cycles.<\/p>\n At -130, we\u2019re happy to back a matchup we would\u2019ve priced much closer to -170.<\/p>\n Gasly was also quicker in Free Practice 1 before a poor sprint qualifying effort shuffled him backward. Alpine essentially turned the sprint into a non-competitive laboratory session, gathering data instead of chasing points. Some longtime SpeedwaySteve2 veterans believe the information harvested during that exercise could pay dividends Sunday.<\/p>\n Or Alpine could still Alpine. That possibility is never fully off the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lights out for the Canadian Grand Prix is scheduled for 4:00pm ET on Apple TV George Russell starts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-690924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Alexander Albon over Carlos Sainz (+170, DraftKings<\/a>)<\/p>\n