Sofia Russo

Formula 1 took hold of me as the sport surged across the United States, and having a grand prix arrive in my own city of Miami turned a passing interest into a full obsession. The parts I cared about most quickly turned out to be the ones away from the cameras — the strategy calls, the tyre degradation, the gap between qualifying pace and race pace — and I taught myself to follow every session through that analytical lens. My predictions are built on car pace relative to track type, tyre and strategy models, qualifying trends, and how a team's package suits a high-downforce circuit versus a power track. I spend real time on podium, points-finish and head-to-head markets, because the outright winner is often the least valuable bet on the board. Driver reputation matters far less than the machinery underneath them on a given weekend. Six years in, I've learned how a safety car, a sudden shower or one slow pit stop can wreck a read that was perfectly sound. So I focus on a disciplined process, fair prices, and explaining the reasoning rather than promising a result the chaos of a race can erase. — Sofia Russo