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I don't watch basketball but here's my kinda "MaRcH MaDnEsS" HackCU12 Last month I was in a 12-hour hackathon. This time I decided to bump it up to a full 24-hour hackathon . I walked into HackCU with almost no expectations, mostly because I was essentially a one-person team . So instead of trying to solve a complicated challenge prompt, I decided to build something I had always wanted to: a small system that predicts Formula 1 race outcomes for the 2026 season. I drew this somewhere around 2AM The idea behind the project, which I called Box-Box (if you watch F1, you know), was to build a model that could take qualifying results and other race-weekend signals and estimate each driver’s probability of winning or finishing on the podium. The system pulls race and qualifying data from the OpenF1 and Ergast APIs , generates features for each driver (qualifying position, practice pace, recent race form, circuit history, reliability metrics, and more), and feeds them int...