Lance Stroll

FIA race director Charlie Whiting had instructed all drivers that if they went off track at Turn 8, the rapid esses in the middle of the lap, they needed to return to the track to the right of a fluorescent yellow kerb to ensure they rejoined safely. Stroll failed to do that in final practice. He was called to the stewards for failing to follow the race director's instruction, but no further ...

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Ocon is poised to lose his Racing Point Force India seat to Stroll for 2019 because the Canadian’s father is an investor in the new team.  That is part of a volatile situation for Ocon that leaves the Mercedes protege at risk of a season on the sidelines next year.  However, Ocon went online earlier this month to defend his friend against what he believes was an abnormal amount of ...

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The Canadian's 2019 move from Williams to Force India is yet to be officially confirmed, but his father's takeover of the Silverstone-based outfit has helped seal his switch. While Force India is in no rush to make a formal announcement about Stroll's move until current driver Esteban Ocon's future has been resolved, the team says it is eager to get him in the car for the Yas Marina test that ...

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Stroll and his associates paid £90m for the assets of the old team before creating a new company and lodging a new entry with the FIA, under the Racing Point name. As the original company is under administration, usually that £90m would be locked into a legal process that could take months or even years before the funds are divided up and used to pay the creditors, led by Mercedes and Sergio ...

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Ocon is poised to lose his Racing Point Force India seat to the Canadian racer because Stroll’s father Lawrence led the consortium that is now in charge of the team. With Sergio Perez likely to stay on at the team, deals at Renault and McLaren falling through and Ocon’s Mercedes ties restricting his options, the Frenchman faces the prospect of a year on the sidelines. Stroll has been ... ...

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Stroll has finished in the top 10 in just two grands prix this season, scoring six points, and made it through to Q3 only once. By this point last year - 14 races into the season - he had scored 28 points over the course of five top 10 finishes, including one podium at the chaotic Azerbaijan Grand Prix. "I'm still only 19 so I think I'm far from reaching my potential as a driver," he said ... ...

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Team principal Otmar Szafnauer continues to insist, however, that there are currently no plans for the Canadian to join Force India mid-season. Nevertheless, the team now knows what it needs to do to hone the current cockpit around Stroll, should he replace Esteban Ocon before the end of the 2018. The fitting took place at the team’s Silverstone factory earlier this week. “He came and ... ...

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Stroll stressed he is still committed to Williams in the wake of a consortium led by his father, Lawrence Stroll, taking over Force India but appeared to leave the door open for a potential mid-season switch. The 19-year-old is expected to race for Force India next year, and there have been suggestions this move could happen earlier should a deal to do so be struck with Williams. With Sergio ... ...

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Williams has finished in the top five of the constructors' championship for the past four season but endured a painful performance deficit this year and is last place with just four points, scored by Stroll in Azerbaijan. Stroll made his grand prix debut with Williams at the start of last season and scored a maiden podium in Baku to complement a successful junior career that includes the 2016 ... ...

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Williams has finished in the top five of the constructors' championship for the past four season but endured a painful performance deficit this year and is last place with just four points, scored by Stroll in Azerbaijan. Stroll made his grand prix debut with Williams at the start of last season and scored a maiden podium in Baku to complement a successful junior career that includes the 2016 ... ...

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Stroll scored a podium and qualified on the front row during his rookie F1 season with Williams in 2017, but the team’s struggles in 2018 have consigned him to much lower results.  He has scored points once, finishing eighth in Azerbaijan, and has had difficulty making it out of the first part of qualifying as the team continued to grapple with its underperforming FW41.  Stroll told ... ...

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Williams asked Massa to extend his F1 career by one more season so it could field the experienced Brazilian alongside incoming rookie Stroll, and the pair helped the team to fifth in the constructors’ championship. Massa was then replaced by Sergey Sirotkin for 2018, and Stroll downplayed the benefit of having a veteran driver alongside him the previous season. Stroll told Motorsport.com ... ...

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Force India has been in administration since the Friday before the Hungarian Grand Prix as parties involved sought to protect it against the threat of a winding-up order over mounting debts. It was confirmed on Tuesday evening that a consortium, led by Stroll, had been assembled with the assistance of Force India’s chief operations officer Otmar Szafnauer and the team's senior ... ...

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The Canadian made it into Q2 in the wet but lost the rear of the car after running wide onto the exit kerb of Turn 9, spun back across the track and hit the barrier nose-first.The contact broke the front wing, the design of which was introduced at the German Grand Prix, and the team does not have a spare for either driver.Because the older-specificatio ...

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On the back of his current team’s struggles in 2018, Stroll is known to have been evaluating his options in a bid to land himself the most competitive seat possible.Sources have now suggested that Force India has emerged as the leading contender should the Canadian decide that his F1 future is better served away from Williams.A move to the Silverstone-based team should give him a ...

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The time penalty meant that Stroll traded 13th place with his Williams teammate Sergey Sirotkin, who had been behind him on the road.Stroll made a pitstop for fresh tyres with just four laps of the race to run, and came out ahead of Perez.The team told him to try and remain unlapped by the Force India driver, and by attempting to do so he ignored the blue flag signals."Lance went ...

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The Toro Rosso driver clashed with Lance Stroll through Turn 5 on the opening lap when trying to pass the Williams driver on the outside.Stroll had a wobble that forced him into Hartley and sent the New Zealander into the tyre barrier, launching him into the air briefly and sending both drivers down the run-off on the entry to the Turn 6/7 chicane.Both drivers were sent to the ...

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Williams has endured a troubled start to the season, with Stroll's eighth place in Baku the only points-scoring finish of the campaign so far, and no sign of form improving on a consistent basis.However, Stroll Sr claims that he has not reached the stage where he would start to look for an alternative home for his son for future seasons."We're not there yet," he told Motorsport.com ...

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Lance Stroll reached Q3 and qualified his Mercedes-powered Williams FW41 in 10th place, a significant improvement after a problematic start to the season. He made two pit stops, the latter one under the Safety Car, changing to a set of ultra soft tires.At the restart, Fernando Alonso moved ahead of him in his McLaren, but Stroll was promoted back to eighth on the final lap due to ...

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Massa said recently that he felt Williams' situation was being made more difficult because it had had to make finances a priority when it came to drivers, so couldn't afford high-paid superstars.But speaking ahead of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Stroll said he was baffled by his former team-mate's remarks – especially because he had showed strong form already last year."I don't und ...

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Stroll was running in third place at the time – behind Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel – when Ricciardo pulled off a brilliant dive down the inside at Turn 1 on lap 23 having also leapfrogged Nico Hulkenberg and Felipe Massa.Reflecting on that moment, Stroll thinks that had he been more confident and closed the door on his Red Bull rival, then their relative car performance would ...

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Lance Stroll planted his Mercedes-powered Williams FW40 in eighth place on the grid last year. During the race, he was running in third when the race was red flagged because of an incident.On the restart, he got passed by the Red Bull of Australian Daniel Ricciardo who powered on to victory. On the last lap, Stroll was demoted to third when Valtteri Bottas motored ahead of him.“Yeah ...

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Lance Stroll qualified his Williams FW41 down in 18th place and started the race on a set of soft Pirelli tires.He made a good start and ran in 12th place before he made his only pit stop of the race on Lap 23 for the medium tire.“It was a great start again and, like in Bahrain, I made up six positions at the start. It’s always good fun to come back around start finish straight and ...

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Villeneuve recently suggested Robert Kubica might use his role as development driver to make the car more difficult to drive and compromise the performances of Stroll and teammate Sergey Sirotkin.Stroll, who has often been criticised by Villeneuve during his 12 months in F1, shrugged off the former champion's comments when they were put to him and explained ...

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Stroll came home 14th at Albert Park, second-to-last of the finishers, the final car on the lead lap, and behind Sauber rookie Charles Leclerc.The race was a continuation of a troubled weekend for Stroll, with ongoing balance and cooling issues limiting his running and leaving him less than comfortable in the car."We're not racing out there at the moment, we are surviving," said the ...

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