Adrien Laurent

Growing up on the French Riviera, the principality's grand prix was practically in my backyard, and the noise of those weekends pulled me in long before I understood any of the engineering behind it. But the parts I came to care about most were the ones away from the cameras — the strategy calls, the tyre degradation, the gap between a qualifying lap and genuine 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 whole board. Driver reputation matters far less than the machinery underneath them on any given weekend. Seven 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. — Adrien Laurent