Lance Stroll’s monumental anger with the Aston Martin. The Canadian driver, son of the owner of the team, caused a major crack on the car he drives in the first training session of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. “This is not a car!”Stroll shouted over the radio as he took the first laps around the Baku street circuit.
The angry Lance Stroll despaired of the car he was driving, which in his opinion was not very safe and had problems, and he sent a challenging message by radio to his team in this first training session. «This is not a car. This is not a car right now,” the Canadian driver commented on the radio. Fernando Alonso’s partner.
The radio message echoed in the Aston Martin box at the start of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, the seventeenth round of the World Championship. Formula 1. There were few laps completed, with little time in this first qualifying session, but Stroll didn’t like the car at allstarring in this crack that will not have been liked at all within the British team.
These complaints come after a very special week for Fernando Alonso’s team, since a few days ago Aston Martin made one of the most spectacular signings in recent years in Formula 1. The British team has acquired the services of Adrian Neweythe guru of Red Bull, the engineer who has built the winning car in recent years in F1 and one of the most relevant people in the entire history of this sport.
However, and despite that stroke of hope, things are not going well for Aston Martin in a difficult season in which the British team is far from what it has shown in 2023. They are currently fifth -out of ten- in the Constructors’ World Cup, but with only 74 pointsdistributed very unevenly: Fernando Alonso contributes 50 points and Lance Stroll, 24.
📻 Lance Stroll: “This is not a car”
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With an irregular and difficult season, Stroll complained about a car that still hasn’t improvedwhich is just as bad as at the beginning of the season and despite the progress in racing, it is still not a competitive car that can fight for great things this year in Formula 1.
These complaints from Lance Stroll about the Aston Martin occurred in the first free practice session of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, a Grand Prix held in the Baku street circuita route through the streets of the capital of this country. This first training session was marked by red flags, with three in total, due to accidents by Leclerc, Colapinto and a piece that was left loose on the circuit.
