Andrea Kimi Antonelli arrives in Madrid this week with seven Formula 1 wins in 13 rounds and a 66-point championship lead. Two days ago he won at Monza from 19th on the grid, a drive the sport will be replaying for years. Kalshi opened its Spanish Grand Prix winner board on Tuesday morning, and the first trade on his contract printed seven minutes later at 37 cents. By Tuesday night buyers were bidding 33 cents and sellers wanted 36, which makes him the favorite by a wide margin over Lando Norris at 17 bid, 20 asked.
The catch is where the race is. The Madring, a 5.416-kilometer hybrid of public roads and purpose-built track around Madrid's IFEMA exhibition center, has never hosted a Formula 1 race. Its asphalt was finished in May. The first cars to test it at speed, a Formula 3 field two weeks ago, produced 19 red flags and three broken chassis in two days. Nobody on the grid has a setup, a representative lap, or a race to point to; one driver has a July filming day. The crowd is pricing a driver's form; the circuit has none to offer.
We handed all 22 contracts to eight AI models, hid every price from all of them, gave them the season's full results, the Monza race mechanism with its sourced quotes, the fetched description of the circuit, the F3 test record, and the result of the first race at every new Formula 1 circuit since 2004. Then we let them read each other's reasoning and revise. They trimmed the favorite. They trimmed Norris harder. And they lifted a driver priced at 6 to 10 cents who has a record at brand-new circuits nobody else on this grid comes close to.
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A Formula 1 Circuit With No History, And A Test That Broke Three Cars
Start with what is actually known about the place, because the panel's whole argument runs through it. It is 22 corners and 5.416 kilometers, split across two districts with a motorway between them and two tunnel sections running underneath it. McLaren's circuit guide, published Tuesday, describes sharp, flat 90-degree corners through the IFEMA section, an 800-meter full-throttle run into the Turn 5 and 6 left-right under the highway, a sharp downhill drop between Turns 7 and 9, and a signature corner, Turn 12, called La Monumental: roughly 550 meters of banked left-hander taken flat out, with a blind, cresting exit the guide calls a slingshot into the second half of the lap. Run-off is limited and the walls are close, which McLaren compares to Montreal and Baku. ESPN's preview names the Turn 5 and 6 chicane as "easily the best overtaking opportunity around the lap," and it is the only one anyone has named as a genuine passing zone before a car has run.
One number in that description is disputed between sources. Wikipedia and ESPN give La Monumental's banking as a 24 percent gradient; McLaren's guide writes 24 degrees, which would be nearly twice as steep. The corner is steep and sustained either way, and the driver who described its effect did not need a protractor. Williams team principal James Vowles, quoted by GPFans on September 4 from an interview with the Barcelona paper Sport:
I think it's four and a half seconds flat out with very high G-forces, which is a challenge for the whole car: tyres, hydraulics... everything. — James Vowles, Williams team principal
And on the Formula 3 test of August 25 and 26, the first time any single-seater field had run the circuit at speed:
In the Formula 3 test there were 19 red flags and three broken chassis, broken suspensions... okay, they're Formula 3 drivers, but it's a track that kills cars, so it's going to be interesting to see what happens. — James Vowles, Williams team principal
Vowles added that "this is typical and always happens on a new track," and that it "could also be a problem with the temperatures." Both halves of that matter. Nineteen red flags in two days, 11 of them for crashes according to Grande Premio's count, is a lot of interruption, and a Formula 1 race with a red flag in it is a different race from one without, as Antonelli just demonstrated. It is also, on Vowles' own account, the ordinary shape of a new circuit's first week, and the F1 field arrives with three practice sessions before anyone is asked to race.
The weather removes one variable. Crash.net's Madrid forecast, published Tuesday, puts the chance of rain across the entire weekend at zero percent, with next to no wind, 30C on Friday, 31C for qualifying and a degree warmer for the race, under a moderate high-temperature warning. Pirelli has brought its C2, C3 and C4 compounds. A hot, dry race on new asphalt with a banked corner that loads a tire for four and a half seconds at a time stresses cars in a way the forecast does nothing to relieve. What it does not do is produce the wet-track lottery that widens a field the fastest.
What Monza Proved About Antonelli, And What It Did Not
The reason Antonelli is 33 to 36 cents rather than 25 is the drive he produced on Sunday. He started 19th at his home race after Mercedes fitted a fifth engine plus a new energy store and control electronics, a 20-place power-unit penalty that dropped him to 19th. Charles Leclerc crashed exiting the final corner on lap two, and by the time the race was red-flagged for barrier repairs Antonelli was already 12th. He climbed through the order after the restart, pitted for fresh mediums under a mid-race virtual safety car while George Russell stayed out on used hards, ran wide at the first chicane on lap 49, and passed his teammate for the lead on lap 50. He won by 3.857 seconds. Formula1.com calls P19 the second-lowest starting position a grand prix has ever been won from. Before the weekend, Antonelli's own stated target had been modest: "In an ideal world, I think realistically top five you can do well..."
The panel read that race carefully and declined to carry it to Madrid. The reason is on the record from Mercedes itself. Trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin explained to Sky Sports on August 28 why the team chose Monza for the penalty:
Monza is an energy-starved circuit with four overtaking zones. A driver cannot defend all of them, so a faster car should be able to make progress relatively straightforwardly. — Andrew Shovlin, Mercedes trackside engineering director
Four overtaking zones, plus a red flag that bunched the field, plus a virtual safety car that handed him a cheap stop. The Madring, on ESPN's reading, has one overtaking zone and walls where Monza has gravel. Every one of the eight seats made the same point in its own words, and Sonnet's version is the cleanest: Mercedes picked Monza "specifically for how easy it is to pass at (four zones); Madring's single zone (Turn 5-6) makes that mechanism far less repeatable, so I'm not inflating him on recency the way a couple of peers did."
What the panel did carry from the season is the pattern that predated Monza. Through Round 12 of 2026, every race had been won from the front row: nine from pole, three from second. Monza, Round 13, broke that from 19th, and it took a red flag and a virtual safety car to do it. Mercedes has taken 10 of the 13 poles this year, six of them Antonelli's. Under this season's new regulations, with no DRS and a driver-managed overtake mode in its place, track position has decided the championship.
The card also handed the models a base rate that exists only for weekends like this one: the first Formula 1 race at every new circuit since 2004, fetched from the results archive.
| Debut Race | Circuit | Pole | Winner | Started |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 Bahrain | Bahrain International | Schumacher | Schumacher (Ferrari) | P1 |
| 2004 China | Shanghai | Barrichello | Barrichello (Ferrari) | P1 |
| 2005 Turkey | Istanbul Park | Raikkonen | Raikkonen (McLaren) | P1 |
| 2008 Europe | Valencia | Massa | Massa (Ferrari) | P1 |
| 2008 Singapore | Marina Bay | Massa | Alonso (Renault) | P15 |
| 2009 Abu Dhabi | Yas Marina | Hamilton | Vettel (Red Bull) | P2 |
| 2010 Korea | Korean International | Vettel | Alonso (Ferrari) | P3 |
| 2011 India | Buddh | Vettel | Vettel (Red Bull) | P1 |
| 2012 United States | Austin | Vettel | Hamilton (McLaren) | P2 |
| 2014 Russia | Sochi | Hamilton | Hamilton (Mercedes) | P1 |
| 2016 Europe | Baku | Rosberg | Rosberg (Mercedes) | P1 |
| 2020 Tuscany | Mugello | Hamilton | Hamilton (Mercedes) | P1 |
| 2020 Portugal | Portimao | Hamilton | Hamilton (Mercedes) | P1 |
| 2021 Qatar | Losail | Hamilton | Hamilton (Mercedes) | P1 |
| 2021 Saudi Arabia | Jeddah | Hamilton | Hamilton (Mercedes) | P1 |
| 2022 Miami | Miami International Autodrome | Leclerc | Verstappen (Red Bull) | P3 |
| 2023 Las Vegas | Las Vegas Strip | Leclerc | Verstappen (Red Bull) | P2 |
Eleven of the 17 were won from pole, 14 from the front row, and 16 from the top three on the grid. The one deep-grid winner is Singapore 2008, the race later established to have been decided by a deliberate crash that triggered a safety car. A blank circuit, on this evidence, does not democratize a race weekend. It rewards whichever team turns up with the fastest car and the best simulator, and the panel priced Sunday that way.
One row repeats six times. Lewis Hamilton has won the first race at six new circuits, the last five of them from pole, and he is also the one Formula 1 driver Wikipedia's circuit page records running a car on the Madring's asphalt, on a Ferrari filming day in July. Verstappen has two debut-circuit wins, from third at Miami and second at Las Vegas. Fernando Alonso has two. Nobody else on the board has one. That table is the mechanism behind the biggest positive disagreement the panel has with the market.
The Board: Antonelli, Norris, And Where The Panel Parts From The Crowd
Kalshi shows two numbers per driver: what buyers are bidding and what sellers are asking. Seven of the 22 contracts had a real number on both sides on Tuesday night. The other 15 had no bid at all, only a one-cent ask, which means you can buy them but nobody was offering to buy them back. The seven two-sided midpoints sum to 91 cents; with the 15 one-cent rows counted at half a cent each, the whole board sums to about 98.5, close enough to 100 that the midpoint reads as a probability without adjustment. Each contract pays one dollar if that driver is classified first in Sunday's race and nothing otherwise, settled on the FIA's official result; the mechanics of a yes/no event contract are in our guide to betting sports on Kalshi.
The board is young. The contracts opened at 15:12 UTC on Tuesday, 11:12 a.m. Eastern, and this page's prices were pulled at 8:49 p.m. Eastern the same evening. In those nine and a half hours the board traded about 14,700 contracts, nearly all of them still open. Antonelli's contract is a third of that on its own. Its first print was 37 cents; a quarter of an hour later, 121 contracts changed hands at 18 cents in a single print, and the next print, in the same second, was back at 36. The largest print on the whole board came late: 1,035 contracts bought at 35 cents at 8:39 p.m. Eastern, ten minutes before this snapshot, and the contract sat at 33 to 36 when this page was stamped.
The winner contract is one of eight boards Kalshi listed for this race at the same moment: pole position, podium, top five, top ten, fastest lap, biggest mover and top constructor sit alongside it. The pole board is the one worth reading next to this page, because it prices the first of the panel's two stages on its own: Antonelli's pole contract was 36 bid, 38 asked on Tuesday night, above his price to win the race, with Norris at 25 to 26 and Russell at 13 to 19. Traders think Antonelli is likelier to start first than to finish first, which is the same shape as the panel's arithmetic.
| Driver | Team | Market: buyers bid / sellers ask | Panel median | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrea Kimi Antonelli | Mercedes | 33¢ / 36¢ | 31.0% | −3.5 |
| Lando Norris | McLaren | 17¢ / 20¢ | 12.4% | −6.1 |
| George Russell | Mercedes | 10¢ / 15¢ | 13.9% | +1.4 |
| Lewis Hamilton | Ferrari | 6¢ / 10¢ | 12.5% | +4.5 |
| Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 5¢ / 9¢ | 8.2% | +1.2 |
| Max Verstappen | Red Bull | 5¢ / 8¢ | 8.2% | +1.7 |
| Oscar Piastri | McLaren | 2¢ / 6¢ | 4.6% | +0.6 |
These are model estimates, not predictions of fact and not financial advice. Prices as of 00:49 UTC on September 9, 2026, fetched from the Kalshi API; that is 8:49 p.m. Eastern on September 8. The panel median, the blend this page uses throughout, is the middle value of eight seats after a revision round, each seat's board normalized to sum to 100. The difference is the median against the midpoint of the spread.
The row that tells the story is Norris. He is the second name on the board at 17 to 20 cents, on the strength of back-to-back wins from pole in Hungary and at Zandvoort and a fourth place from eighth at Monza. Every one of the eight seats put him between 11.3% and 14.0%, and the median of 12.4% is six points under the market's midpoint, the largest raw disagreement on the page. The seats got there the same way: McLaren has two poles this season to Mercedes' ten, and at a circuit where the panel expects qualifying to decide the race, the second-fastest qualifying team is not a 20-cent proposition. The market is paying for the summer. The panel is paying for Saturday.
Antonelli's row is the one the crowd will care about, and the panel's answer is narrower than the Monza headlines suggest. The median is 31.0%, three and a half points under the midpoint of 34.5. Six of the eight seats sat between 28.8% and 33.7%; the two outliers were Kimi at 36.0% and GPT at 26.3%. Nobody made him anything other than the favorite. What the seats would not do is pay Monza's price for a circuit Monza does not resemble. Fable's number, 33.7%, came with the clearest accounting: "car pace times conversion, discounted for a blank-data qualifying, five days of session uncertainty, and Vowles-flagged attrition risk on a track that broke three F3 chassis."
The panel's strongest disagreement with the market is Hamilton. At 6 bid, 10 asked, the market prices him fourth, and the panel's 12.5% is four and a half points above the midpoint, the largest positive gap on the board. Most of the panel cited his six debut-circuit wins in its own reasoning, and three seats, Fable, Opus and Grok, also cited the July filming day. Gemini, which finished at 13.0%, wrote in its first round that it would "elevate Hamilton for his six career debut-track wins," and its revised board priced him level with Russell. The honest counterweight is that Ferrari has won twice in 13 rounds this year and Hamilton's own Monza was a sixth place from fourth on the grid; the debut table rewards the fastest car, and Ferrari has not been that in 2026.
Russell sits almost exactly where the market has him, 13.9% against a midpoint of 12.5, and the gap between his bid and ask, 10 to 15, is the widest of the seven live names. That five-cent spread is the market's way of saying it does not know either. He has reached the season limit on five power-unit components and told Grande Premio on Tuesday that "most likely I will receive a penalty at some point in the next few races," which he hopes to take "when we already have the upgrade on the car..." Mercedes' upgraded engine is not due until Austin or Mexico City, and the team has announced nothing for Madrid. The seats priced the chance of a penalty this weekend between roughly 25 and 40 percent, and that disagreement is the one thing that moved the panel most between rounds.
The board's most-traded contract after the favorite is Verstappen's, at 3,415 contracts, more than Norris and Russell combined, at a price of 5 to 8 cents. The panel put him at 8.2%, above the midpoint, on the two debut wins and a Monza podium from fifth on the grid in what is still a winless Red Bull season.
Every Seat's Number
| Seat | Antonelli | Norris | Russell | Hamilton | Leclerc | Verstappen | Piastri |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Fable | 33.7 | 12.3 | 13.3 | 11.2 | 8.2 | 7.2 | 5.1 |
| Claude Opus | 31.0 | 13.0 | 13.0 | 11.0 | 9.0 | 8.0 | 5.5 |
| Claude Sonnet | 28.8 | 12.4 | 16.5 | 10.3 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 6.7 |
| GPT | 26.3 | 12.6 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.4 | 5.3 |
| Gemini | 31.0 | 14.0 | 13.0 | 13.0 | 9.0 | 7.0 | 4.0 |
| Grok | 30.9 | 12.4 | 15.5 | 14.4 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 4.1 |
| Kimi | 36.0 | 11.3 | 12.3 | 13.4 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 4.1 |
| GLM | 28.9 | 12.4 | 14.4 | 12.4 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 4.1 |
| Panel Median | 31.0 | 12.4 | 13.9 | 12.5 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 4.6 |
| Market, Midpoint Of Bid And Ask | 34.5 | 18.5 | 12.5 | 8.0 | 7.0 | 6.5 | 4.0 |
Every seat on this panel is graded against real market settlements — records to date: Claude Fable 90% on 2,542 graded calls · Claude Opus 89% on 2,681 graded calls · Claude Sonnet 88% on 2,658 graded calls · GPT 86% on 9,365 graded calls · Gemini 87% on 8,145 graded calls · Grok 85% on 6,673 graded calls · Kimi 87% on 4,074 graded calls · GLM 84% on 3,747 graded calls. Recomputed daily; the full scoreboard is public.
These are model estimates, not predictions of fact and not financial advice. Every number on this page gets graded in public once the race settles, on the full graded scoreboard, which is also where you can see how this panel did on the last two races. At Zandvoort it cut Norris against a 37-cent market and he won from pole. At Monza it put Antonelli at 4.5% from 19th on the grid, and he won. Both misses are on the record, and both were misses in the same direction: the panel underpriced the driver who ended up winning. You are entitled to weigh that against everything above.
More live boards from the same panel: the 2026 drivers' championship board, where Antonelli's contract costs 87¢ after Monza; the constructors' championship board, where Mercedes is 95¢ to buy; and the Italian Grand Prix board, settled on Sunday on the panel's 4.5% name. Prices fetched the evening of September 8, 2026.
Where The Panel Changed Its Mind
After round one, each seat read the other seven sets of reasoning anonymously and could revise. The medians barely moved: Antonelli went from 29.9% to 31.0%, Hamilton from 11.7% to 12.5%, and Norris, Russell, Leclerc and Verstappen shifted by less than half a point each. Underneath the medians, though, the seats were arguing about one thing, and it was Russell's engine.
Gemini moved furthest, 21 points of total change across its board spread over most of the top seven, with the single largest piece of it restoring Russell from 8% to 13%:
I previously dropped Russell aggressively to 8% due to penalty risk, but Forecaster G surfaced a critical detail: Russell hopes to take the penalty with the upcoming upgrade, and the data card confirms no Mercedes upgrade arrives in Madrid (it's due in Austin/Mexico). This significantly lowers his penalty probability for this weekend, so I have restored him to 13%. — Gemini
Kimi read the same exchange and moved the other way, cutting both Mercedes drivers:
I trimmed Antonelli 38 to 35 and Russell 14 to 12. Two peer arguments I had underweighted: (1) Forecaster G's quantification of the Russell penalty risk at around 40% with the mechanism spelled out: at a hard-to-pass circuit a back-of-grid start guts his win chance, so the expected-value haircut should be deeper than my four points; (2) the convergent peer point that five days out with zero... — Kimi (its 35 reads as 36.0 in the table once its board is normalized to 100; the note breaks off on the second argument, the five-days-out uncertainty several peers shared)
GLM went up on both, from 25 to 28 on Antonelli and 11 to 14 on Russell, writing that it had "over-priced his PU penalty risk at around 40%; peers uniformly sat at 25 to 30% chance." Opus lifted Antonelli three points after re-reading the debut table and deciding a blank circuit did not justify the wider qualifying spread it had assumed in round one. Sonnet moved least, under four points in total; its note opened with a single word, "Held," and then explained that neither peer disagreement, the size of Russell's penalty discount or the Piastri-Verstappen order, raised evidence it had not already weighed in round one. Grok, which declined in its own words to move its top six, explained why:
HOLD top six at Round-1 levels. Strongest opposing camps do not move me: E and D at Antonelli 35 to 38 argue one overtaking zone makes position more decisive; I already price high front-start conversion; five-day-out blank-circuit uncertainty plus F3 attrition keep me from steepening past 30. — Grok
The panel finished with Russell and Hamilton 1.4 points apart and Norris below both. Its strong opinion, after two rounds, is that the market has the wrong second name.
Dark Horses: Gasly, Lawson, And The Row That Cannot Win
Fifteen of the 22 contracts have no bid at all. They cost a cent to buy, and at the moment we pulled the board there was no displayed buyer on the other side. Four of them drew numbers worth a paragraph, and one drew a zero for a reason worth understanding.
Pierre Gasly carries a median of 2.1%, the highest of any driver without a bid behind him, and well above what a one-cent ask implies. He is on the board for one reason: he took pole at Monza on Saturday in an Alpine, at a circuit where Mercedes had owned qualifying all year. Fable moved Antonelli down two points in round two on exactly that point, "a one-lap outlier is likelier at a data-blank circuit," and sent the difference to Gasly and the field. His race pace faded to seventh on Sunday, which is why the panel's number is two percent and not five.
Liam Lawson is at 1.5%. He drives the Red Bull this weekend for the third race running; Red Bull confirmed on Tuesday that Isack Hadjar's wrist has not recovered and that Yuki Tsunoda keeps the Racing Bulls seat alongside Arvid Lindblad. Lawson qualified a tenth behind Verstappen at Zandvoort and finished seventh there; at Monza he went out in Q2, started from the pit lane on engine penalties, and finished 14th.
Isack Hadjar is at 0.0%, and his contract is the row to understand before buying anything on this board. The board lists Hadjar as a Red Bull driver and Lawson as a Racing Bulls driver, and it has no contract at all for Tsunoda; the confirmed entry has Lawson in the Red Bull and Tsunoda in the Racing Bulls car. Hadjar is not racing; a driver who is not in the race cannot finish first in it, and every seat priced him at zero. A penny on that row is a donation. The mirror image matters too: if Tsunoda were to win, all 22 listed contracts would settle no, because nobody holds a contract on him.
The two Spanish drivers on the grid, Carlos Sainz Jr. for Williams and Fernando Alonso for Aston Martin, drew medians of 0.8% and 0.6% at their home race. Alonso has two debut-circuit wins on the table above, both in a Ferrari or a Renault that could win races. Neither car can this year, and the panel did not manufacture a home-crowd story it could not support.
What Would Change The Panel's Mind
Four things could move these numbers before lights out, all of them checkable and all of them dated.
- Friday Practice, September 11. The first Formula 1 laps at speed on this asphalt. The seats' attrition discount is the widest disagreement on the board after Russell's engine: Grok took about seven points off the favorites for it, GLM reserved about 15 percent of its whole board for chaos. If the F3 test's pattern of red flags and broken suspensions repeats in the two Friday sessions, the GLM end of that range wins and the field gains; if the sessions run clean, the debut-circuit base rate reasserts itself and Antonelli's number rises toward the market's.
- Any Mercedes Announcement About Russell's Power Unit. This is the argument the panel had with itself, and the seats already showed what each answer does to the number. Gemini's first-round board, which weighted the penalty heavily, had Russell at 8%; its revised board, which did not, had him at 13%. A penalty confirmed for Madrid takes him to the back at a circuit with one passing zone and pulls the panel toward the first of those figures. A confirmation that it waits for the October upgrade removes the haircut most seats applied and moves Russell clear of Norris.
- Saturday Qualifying, September 12. Every seat priced a two-stage race: who starts on the front row, then who converts. Qualifying resolves the first stage. A Ferrari on pole would push Hamilton well past the panel's 12.5% and take price from both Mercedes; a second Alpine surprise would do what Gasly's Monza pole did to the Italian Grand Prix board, where his race contract printed as high as 32 cents in the two minutes after the session and was back at 10 within minutes: a one-lap outlier moves a board hard and briefly, and the panel has him at 2.1%.
- A Change To The Forecast. Every seat priced this as a dry race on new asphalt, which is why the attrition they reserved is mechanical: tires, suspensions and the banked corner's sustained load. A wet Friday would make the F3 test's red-flag pattern the live scenario rather than the tail one, and the seats that cut the favorite hardest on attrition would cut him further.
Settlement Timeline
| Date | What happens |
|---|---|
| Friday, September 11 | Practice 1 (11:30 UTC) and Practice 2 (15:00 UTC), the first Formula 1 running at the Madring |
| Saturday, September 12 | Practice 3 (10:30 UTC), then qualifying at 14:00 UTC sets the grid |
| Sunday, September 13 | Race, 57 laps, 13:00 UTC, 9 a.m. Eastern. Contracts settle on the FIA's classified finishing order |
| Expected Expiration | September 13, 2026, 19:00 UTC |
This page is re-scored when the story moves, and every number on it is stamped as of the evening of September 8, 2026.
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The Bottom Line
The question Madrid asks is whether a season decided almost entirely by qualifying can be read at a circuit where nobody has qualified. The market answered with Monza: 33 to 36 cents on the driver who just won from 19th, 17 to 20 on the driver who won the two races before that. Eight models, none of which saw a price, came back below the market on both of them, refused to treat a four-zone Monza comeback as evidence about a one-zone street circuit, and spent the difference on Hamilton's six first-race wins and on a Verstappen the order book is already buying. By Sunday evening the FIA's classification will have graded all of it in public, next to the two straight races this same panel underpriced the eventual winner on. The first answer Madrid itself gets to give arrives at 11:30 UTC on Friday, when the first Formula 1 car takes La Monumental at speed: a clean session pulls the favorite's number toward the market's, a red-flagged one pulls the field's up, and either way it is the first fact on this page that Monza did not supply.
If you want a human read on this same board, Sam Smith's column on why he is passing on Antonelli at 36 cents passes on Antonelli for the same reason and lands on Norris at 20 cents, the one name this panel is most certain the market has too high; read both and decide which argument you buy. Our free expert picks hub carries today's cards across every sport we cover.
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