Lance Stroll

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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The young Canadian came home 14th at Albert Park, second-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," ...

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Coming off the back of an unspectacular winter of testing, and with the likes of Renault, Haas and McLaren showing signs of potential improvement, Williams could face a tough battle to hang on to its fifth spot in the constructors' standings for a second consecutive year.That's not lost on Stroll, who admits that Williams' testing form, paired with gains being made elsewhere on the ...

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The Polish driver had originally been due to run this morning before handing over to Sergey Sirotkin to sign off Williams' pre-season preparations.But with Stroll having lost valuable mileage over the two tests because of weather and car-related problems, Kubica approached the team on Thursday to suggest giving up his time for the Canadian.Williams welcomed the idea and shuffled its ...

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Lance Stroll drove the Williams FW41-01 powered by the Mercedes-AMG F1 M09 EQ Power+ power unit one more time, focusing on long runs before he flies to Melbourne, Australia for the opening round of the season.His teammate Sergey Sirotkin and the team’s third driver, Robert Kubica, will share the driving duties on Friday, the final day of pre-season testing.The Montréal native said he ...

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Luckily for the Montreal native, he got his first taste of the Mercedes powered Williams FW41 on Monday despite the unusual cold temperatures in this region of Spain.Stroll admitted it was impossible for him to say if the car was to be competitive or not. “I only drove the car for about 40 laps, and most of them we designed to see if everything was working fine. So it’s difficult to ...

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James Urwin will continue to work with Stroll this season, but will share duties with Luca Baldisserri, who filled in for the final four races of 2017 while Urwin was on paternity leave.Andrew Murdoch, who worked with Felipe Massa last year, will team up with Paul Williams, who was a senior trackside aerodynamicist, to race engineer Sirotkin."We've had some operational changes and I ...

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The Montreal native completed 46 laps around the Circuit de Catalunya, setting the sixth fastest time in 1:22.452, a little more than two seconds slower than Daniel Ricciardo, quickest of all in the new Red Bull RB14 in 1:20.179.This year’s car features several design changes, some of which are due to regulation changes such as the introduction of the halo and the removal of the shark ...

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After being drafted in at late notice to replace Mercedes-bound Valtteri Bottas alongside Stroll last year, Massa retired from grand prix racing for a second time at the end of the 2018 season.The Brazilian’s place has been taken by rookie Sergey Sirotkin for 2018, giving Williams one of the least experienced driver line-ups on the F1 grid.But, when asked whether he would miss having ...

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The Canadian, who graduated to F1 after winning the Formula 3 European championship, had a tough start with three successive retirements and drew criticism in particular from Jacques Villeneuve.But Stroll turned things around with his first points in round seven in Canada, followed by third place at the following race in Azerbaijan, and ended the year with 40 points, just three adrift ...

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In 1996, a 24-year-old Canadian rookie with a famous surname took grand prix racing by storm.He stepped into the Williams team, armed with the best car in the field, carrying the momentum of a convincing title-winning season in a different category from the year previously.He benefitted from a rigorous test programme, finished on the podium on his Grand Prix debut, ended the season ...

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Robert Kubica was the early favourite to get the seat vacated by Felipe Massa, but dropped out of the running following Siroktin's impressive showing at the end-of-season Pirelli test at Abu Dhabi.Williams said throughout the process that its driver decision would be based purely on performance and it is believed Sirotkin was clearly the quickest at Yas ...

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The Williams driver, who graduated to F1 after winning the Formula 3 European championship, had a tough start with three successive retirements.Jacques Villeneuve was particularly critical of his fellow Canadian, suggesting the job he was doing compared to teammate Felipe Massa was "pathetic".However, Stroll scored his first points in round seven in Canada and followed that up with a ...

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Stroll has had some strong races this year, including a podium in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, and finished just three points behind teammate Felipe Massa in the drivers' standings.But the 2016 European F3 champion has found it harder to get the best out of the car in qualifying, trailing Massa 2-17 in the head-to-head.Williams chief technical officer Paddy Lowe has said he thinks ...

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Stroll gained two places at the start to run 13th, but struggled with balance issues and tyres, forcing him to do three pitstops while most did just one.He crossed the line 18th, while teammate Felipe Massa scored a point with 10th in his final race in F1."He just didn't seem to have the balance to make it work," said Williams technical director Paddy Lowe."We need to go and ...

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