Claim that Lance Stroll will remain an Aston Martin driver until he no longer wants to race in F1.
have regularly come under fire, most recently after the Canadian crashed out of the Sao Paulo Grand Prix on the formation lap.Get the latest F1 news, exclusives, interviews and promotions from the paddock direct to your inboxThe embarrassing retirement led some to question whether the decision to continue keeping Stroll on at the team - owned by his billionaire father Lawrence - matches Aston Martin ’s high ambitions of becoming world championship contenders in the coming years.
“Aston Martin owner Lawrence Stroll has never quite said it in as many words, but people who know him well and have worked for him believe he bought an F1 team for his son, and his big ambition is for Lance to become world champion,” Benson wrote in a“So Lance will be in the car as long as he wants to be an F1 driver.
“On a general level, Stroll has been slower than every team-mate he has had in F1, other than Sergey Sirotkin in 2018. “The main seat is occupied until the end of 2026 by Fernando Alonso. He will be 45 by the time his contract runs out, and has not said whether he wants to continue beyond that time.
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