Ahead of a grand prix weekend, most of us like to share predictions or try and guess who will come out on top on a Sunday. Data scientist Mariana Antaya took those chats one stage further and built a machine learning model to try and predict F1 race results. So far, her model has correctly called the winners of three grands prix this season.
“I'm a really big Formula 1 fan,” says Antaya when speaking with Motorsport.com. “Machine learning and all these algorithms are really widely used in Formula 1 by the teams. I don't think as many people know, but the race engineers are using this for their strategy in real time.