The 2023 Formula 1 season will continue on Sunday with the 2023 Canadian Grand Prix on the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal. The race will begin at 2 p.m. ET and Red Bull Racing enters having won the first seven races of the season. Max Verstappen has won five times and sits atop the 2023 F1 standings, while Carlos Perez has two wins and sits second in the standings 53 points behind his teammate. 

Verstappen is the defending champion and he is the -275 favorite (risk $275 to win $100) in the 2023 Canadian Grand Prix odds from Caesars Sportsbook, while Perez is priced at +500. Lewis Hamilton is next on the board at 11-1 following his second-place finish in Spain, while Fernando Alonso is at 12-1 with five podium finishes this year.

SportsLine's proven computer projection model simulated the Canadian GP 2023 10,000 times and came 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 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 Verstappen's victories in Bahrain, Australia, Miami, Monaco and Spain to start the 2023 season. Anyone who followed the model's lead on those plays has seen HUGE returns!

The Canadian Grand Prix was first held in 1961 and it became a part of the Formula One World Championship in 1967. The race has been held at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve since 1978. The track was renamed from Île Notre-Dame Circuit in 1982 after 1978 winner Gilles Villeneuve, who thus far is the only Canadian driver to win the national grand prix. The circuit is 14 turns and measures 2.71 miles for its Canadian Grand Prix setup and Valtteri Bottas set the track record with a 1:13.078 in 2019. His then-teammate Lewis Hamilton went on to win that race and is tied with Michael Schumacher for the most Canadian Grand Prix victories (7) of all time.

Now, the model has dialed in on the 2023 Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix and just released its coveted picks and leaderboard projections. 

We can tell you the model is high on Alonso even though he's the fourth favorite at 12-1 and coming off his worst finish of the season (t-7th) in Spain. The two-time world champion is having a resurgent season after joining Aston Martin. He's currently third in the standings and has been on the podium five times in seven races this year and was top four in each of his first six starts in 2023. Alonso won the 2006 Canadian Grand Prix during his run of back-to-back F1 championships and he's also had two other podium finishes in Canada.

The model is also targeting one driver getting triple-digit Canadian Grand Prix 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 Canadian GP picks of your own.

So who wins the 2023 Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix? And which SERIOUS long shot might be in contention? ... Join SportsLine right now to see the full projected F1 Canadian GP leaderboard, all from the model that has nailed its racing picks the last two years, and find out!