Recently, the author (Rodrigue, 2001) developed a generalized correlation for the motion of gas bubbles rising steadily in uncontaminated viscous Newtonian fluids of infinite extent. It is the purpose of this note to show that this model can be written in an explicit form for the drag coefficient as a function of the Reynolds and Morton numbers. This new correlation is then used to predict the position of the minimum in a graphical representation of C-D versus Re. It is shown that the model can predict quite nicely this hydrodynamic transition for viscous fluids.