Lance Stroll

Lance Stroll

Nation:	Canada
Formula 1 world championship
Status:	active
Start number :	18th
First start:	2017 Australian Grand Prix
Constructors
2017–2018  Williams • 2019–2020  Racing Point
statistics
World Cup balance:	Twelfth World Cup ( 2017 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 69 - - -
World Cup points :	109
Podiums :	1
Leadership laps :	-
Status: Belgian Grand Prix, August 30, 2020

Lance Stroll (born October 29, 1998 in Montreal , Québec , actually Lance Strulovitch ) is a Canadian racing driver . He won the Italian Formula 4 championship in 2014 , the Toyota Racing Series in 2015 and the European Formula 3 championship in 2016 . He has been competing in the Formula 1 World Championship since 2017 . He also has Belgian citizenship through his mother .

Career

Karting (2008-2013)

Stroll began his motorsport career in karting in 2008 , in which he remained active until 2013. In 2008 and 2009 he won several Canadian Junior Series championships. In 2010 he won the Rotax Mini Max on the Florida Winter Tour . In 2010, at the age of eleven, Stroll was accepted into the Ferrari Driver Academy , the Scuderia Ferrari support program. In 2011 he competed in Europe for the first time and was ninth in the KF3 class of the WSK Euro Series . In 2012, Stroll won the SKUSA SuperNationals . He was also fourth in the KF3 class of the WSK Master Series and tenth in the CIK-FIA World Cup of the KF3. In 2013, Stroll competed in the CIK-FIA World and European Championships in the KF category. He reached sixth place in the world championship.

Beginnings in formula racing (2014-2016)

Lance Stroll at Spa-Francorchamps in the European Formula 3 Championship 2015

In 2014, Stroll switched to formula racing and initially received a cockpit in the Florida Winter Series . A second place at Homestead-Miami Speedway was his best result. Stroll then competed for the Prema Power Team in the 2014 Italian Formula 4 championship . His father acquired shares in Prema as part of his commitment. In the championship he managed to win his debut race. Stroll won ten races in the championship class and won the championship. At the last race weekend he did not start due to an injury. At the beginning of 2015 Stroll started for M2 Competition in the Toyota Racing Series . He scored three victories in the first two events. He scored his fourth victory in the last race, the New Zealand Grand Prix . This made him the youngest driver to win an international automobile Grand Prix at the age of 16. Stroll won the championship with 906 to 798 against his teammate Brandon Maïsano .

In 2015 Stroll then competed for the Prema Powerteam in the European Formula 3 championship . At the eighth race weekend in Spielberg , he achieved his first podium finish with a third place. In the next races he achieved three more third places and one second place. After all, he won a race at the last event in Hockenheim . While his teammate Felix Rosenqvist won the championship, Stroll finished the season in fifth place overall. At the end of the year, Stroll left the Ferrari funding program. He switched to the support program of Williams and was there for the next season Formula 1 test driver. Stroll together with left Luca Baldisserri , the former head of the support program, Ferrari to continue to act as a mentor to stroll.

In 2016 Stroll drove again for the Prema Powerteam in the European Formula 3 championship. He won one race each in Le Castellet , Zandvoort and Spa-Francorchamps ; two races each in Spielberg, Nuremberg , Nürburg and Imola as well as all three races at the last race weekend in Hockenheim. With a total of 14 wins from 30 races, he won the championship. At the end of the season he was 507 to 322 points well ahead of his teammate Maximilian Günther , who was second overall. In addition, debuted stroll in the GT Trek and took the Ford -Werksteam Chip Ganassi Racing at the 24 Hours of Daytona , which the MSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship mattered part. He finished fifth overall with his teammates Brendon Hartley , Andy Priaulx and Alexander Wurz .

Formula 1 (since 2017)

Stroll during test drives in Barcelona

In the 2017 Formula 1 World Championship , Stroll competed for Williams as a regular driver. Stroll is considered the best-prepared debutant in Formula 1 history. His entry into Formula 1 had been promoted for years by a program funded by his father, which cost a double-digit million amount and which included taking over the Prema Powerteam. In the second half of 2016, Stroll completed several test drives in camera with a two-year-old Williams FW36 and corresponding Mercedes engines that were specially built for him. In addition, Stroll had access to the latest simulator sponsored by his father, even before Williams factory drivers Valtteri Bottas and Felipe Massa . By the start of the 2017 season, he should have completed around 8,000 km of test drives in Formula 1 vehicles in this way. He chose number 18 as his permanent starting number. In his debut race in Australia he was eliminated. In his home race, the Canadian Grand Prix , he scored points for the first time in ninth place. A race later in Azerbaijan he achieved his first podium finish with third place. At the end of the season, he finished twelfth overall with 40 points, in 2018 Stroll stayed with Williams and achieved 18th place in the championship with six points.

For the 2019 Formula 1 World Championship , Stroll switched to Racing Point . His father is involved as the owner of the racing stable. He finished the season in 15th place overall with 21 points. He will also drive for Racing Point in 2020 . After the seventh race, he is currently seventh in the drivers' standings with 42 points.

Personal

Lance Stroll's father Lawrence Stroll is a well-known fashion tycoon from Canada.

statistics

Career stations

2008-2013: karting 2014 : Florida Winter Series 2014 : Italian Formula 4 (champions) 2015 : Toyota Racing Series (champions)

2015 : European Formula 3 (5th place) 2016 : European Formula 3 (champions) 2016 : IWSC , Prototype (27th place) 2016 : Formula 1 (test driver)

2017 : Formula 1 (12th place) 2018 : Formula 1 (18th place) 2019 : Formula 1 (15th place) 2020 : Formula 1

Individual results in the Italian Formula 4 championship

year	team	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	Points	rank
2014	Prema Power Team	ADR			IMO			MUG			LIKE			VAL			MNZ			IMO			331	1.
		1	2	7th	1	2	1	2	1	6th	1	DNF	2	2	1	1	4th	3	DNF	WD	WD	WD

Individual results in the European Formula 3 championship

year	team	engine	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23	24	25th	26th	27	28	29	30th	31	32	33	Points	rank
2015	Prema Powerteam	Mercedes	SIL			HO1			PAU			MNZ			SPA			NOR			ZAN			SPI			POR			ONLY			HO2			231	5.
			6th	4th	DNF	6th	14th	6th	9	10	4th	11	DNF	DSQ	29	DNF	EX	8th	4th	26 *	4th	DNF	5	4th	3	5	4th	3	3	9	3	2	1	6th	DNF
2016	Prema Powerteam	Mercedes	LEC			HUN			PAU			SPI			NOR			ZAN			SPA			ONLY			IMO			HOC						507	1.
			1	DNF	5	4th	8th	3	9	4th	2	2	1	1	1	2	1	1	DNF	19th	1	19th	4th	1	1	2	2	1	1	1	1	1

Statistics in the Formula 1 World Championship

These statistics include all the driver's participations in the Formula 1 World Championship .

general overview

Status: Belgian Grand Prix, August 30, 2020

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
2017	Williams Martini Racing	Williams FW40	Mercedes 1.6 V6 Turbo	20th	-	-	1	-	-	40	12.
2018	Williams Martini Racing	Williams FW41	Mercedes 1.6 V6 Turbo	21st	-	-	-	-	-	6th	18th
2019	SportPesa Racing Point F1 Team	Racing Point RP19	Mercedes 1.6 V6 Turbo	21st	-	-	-	-	-	21st	15th
2020	BWT Racing Point F1 Team	Racing Point RP20	Mercedes 1.6 V6 Turbo	7th	-	-	-	-	-	42	7th
total				69	-	-	1	-	-	109

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23	24
2017
	DNF	DNF	DNF	11	16	14 *	9	3	10	16	14th	11	7th	8th	8th	DNF	11	6th	16	18th
2018
	14th	14th	14th	8th	11	17th	DNF	17 *	13	12	DNF	17th	13	9	14th	15th	17th	14th	12	18th	13
2019
	9	14th	12	9	DNF	16	9	13	14th	13	4th	17th	10	11	13	11	9	12	13	19 *	DNF
2020
	DNF	7th	4th	9	6th	4th	8th

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Web links

Commons : Lance Stroll  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Career statistics of Lance stroll (English)

Individual evidence

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2. ^ Lance Stroll was a Belgian citizen
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10. ^ Ian Parkes: Ex-Ferrari Academy member Stroll gets Williams F1 development deal. autosport.com, November 26, 2015, accessed January 6, 2016 . 
11. ↑ Marcus Simmons: Luca Baldisserri leaves Ferrari to mentor Formula 3's Lance Stroll. autosport.com, December 29, 2015, accessed January 6, 2016 . 
12. ↑ Peter Allen: Lance Stroll to stay in F3 with Prema in 2016. paddockscout.com, November 3, 2015, accessed on January 6, 2016 (English). 
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14. ↑ Markus Lüttgens: Formula 1 2017: Bottas and Stroll drive for Williams. Motorsport-Total.com, November 3, 2016, accessed November 3, 2016 . 
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17. ↑ Dominik Sharaf: “Does a fashion mogul buy in? Ecclestone doubts ". Motorsport-Total.com, June 1, 2014, accessed June 11, 2014 .