Armed With An Algorithm And A Spreadsheet, Data Scientist Mariana Antaya Has Correctly Predicted Three Out Of Five Winners So Far This Season.
IT-Techstrong.ai, Monday, December 29th, 2025
She may not know her way around a semi-automatic sequential gearbox, but thanks to artificial intelligence (AI), one Formula One fan is leaving the odds in the dust when it comes to predicting the winners of Grand Prix races.
Armed with an algorithm and a spreadsheet, data scientist Mariana Antaya has correctly predicted three out of five winners so far this season.
Ms. Antaya, a product manager with Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, built a machine learning model and fed it a range of data points - performance stats from the 2024 season, qualifying results from 2025, weather forecasts, lap times and other information sourced from the FastF1 API - to fine tune her digital fortune-teller.