Lance Stroll is not a quick driver, discuss...
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HustleRussell said:
IIRC Esteban Ocon’s parents sold their home and moved out into a caravan to support their son’s early international efforts.
Sold the village/town garage to live out of a Vito van taking their son karting. Dog kept pewking up for the first few days, so unused to life on the road as it was.Regardless, Lance isn't so bad and there's no way he's the worst on the grid.
sgtBerbatov said:
Stan the Bat said:
ChocolateFrog said:
Stroll is the poorest driver on the grid, with maybe the exception of Kubica but even then that's debatable.
A good or maybe fortunate strategy helped him to a decent result last weekend.
Ocon must be cursing the fact his dad isn't a billionaire, assuming he isn't.
Think Ocon's family were relatively poor.A good or maybe fortunate strategy helped him to a decent result last weekend.
Ocon must be cursing the fact his dad isn't a billionaire, assuming he isn't.
Ocon will get his chance again.
thegreenhell said:
sgtBerbatov said:
Stan the Bat said:
ChocolateFrog said:
Stroll is the poorest driver on the grid, with maybe the exception of Kubica but even then that's debatable.
A good or maybe fortunate strategy helped him to a decent result last weekend.
Ocon must be cursing the fact his dad isn't a billionaire, assuming he isn't.
Think Ocon's family were relatively poor.A good or maybe fortunate strategy helped him to a decent result last weekend.
Ocon must be cursing the fact his dad isn't a billionaire, assuming he isn't.
Ocon will get his chance again.
LaurasOtherHalf said:
HustleRussell said:
IIRC Esteban Ocon’s parents sold their home and moved out into a caravan to support their son’s early international efforts.
Sold the village/town garage to live out of a Vito van taking their son karting. Dog kept pewking up for the first few days, so unused to life on the road as it was.Regardless, Lance isn't so bad and there's no way he's the worst on the grid.
Too many comments that he's still in-experienced, only in his 3rd season, give him time etc. That doesn't cut it anymore! There are many drivers better than him that would do a better job.
If you have any future in F1 beyond your dads pocket, then you need to be like Norris, Russel, Albon..... each have come into their respective teams and just nailed it and been right up there with their very experienced team mates. Perez has wiped the floor with Stroll and Perez is far from the best as it is.
Ah... worse than Stroll.... yes.... Giovanazzi!!
Dougthecat said:
Would he currently be racing in F1 had his father not bought the team he races for?
There are very few f1 drivers who dont indirectly pay for drives.One of the reasons Ferrari signed Alonso was because he brought Santander sponsorship with him.
Perez backed by a few Mexican companies etc.
Stroll is a very fortunate person as he probably has the best backing of any F1 driver in modern history but he isn't embarrassingly slow. He never seems arrogant and has shown a few times he has the raw speed to compete.
He is no verstappen, alonso or hamilton etc but he should be able to carve a career to a similar level as heidfeld, trulli, fisichella etc.
A few more seasons in junior categories probably would have helped, same with Verstappen. But then Verstappen has the one in a million raw speed to make up for his dodgy race craft earlier in his f1 career.
If his dad has saved 100s of jobs then even better.
Just be glad that rich energy didn't buy force India.
Edited by WonkeyDonkey on Monday 29th July 11:43
Mark-C said:
Vaud said:
Well I thought that was a pretty mature drive in Germany...
Yep - the team could do with points and they found a small gap for a strategy call that could have gone very wrong and Stroll delivered it.geeks said:
A very good result, especially on a day when his highly rated team mate spears into the wall unforced in an (albeit it out of character) accident.
And a very good day for whatever charity it is they are supporting, with the $$$ thousand per position gained in the race thing.First time I watched a race for a long time actually.
Team made a good pit call late on, but he made a lot of mistakes under pressure in my book.
He is a Diniz, nothing more, can drive the car, has a bit of speed, but let's not kid ourselves, there is only one reason he is there, and one reason he will probably do over 200 races.
That is the only thing to remember about him.
Team made a good pit call late on, but he made a lot of mistakes under pressure in my book.
He is a Diniz, nothing more, can drive the car, has a bit of speed, but let's not kid ourselves, there is only one reason he is there, and one reason he will probably do over 200 races.
That is the only thing to remember about him.
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