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German media outlet Auto Motor und Sport revealed that Stroll’s father paid for his son to take a world tour of famed F1 circuits, armed with a 2014 Williams, two specially-prepared Mercedes engines and five Mercedes engineers in a staff of 20.

#E x f1 2019 drivers#

He also installed a state of the art race simulator at the Williams F1 base which Williams drivers Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas could not even use, as it was calibrated for F3. In his winning F3 season, Stroll’s father – who owned the Prema F3 team – enlisted renowned Ferrari F1 engineer Luca Baldisserri to mastermind his son’s rise. Lance Stroll at this year's Mexican Grand Prix. He was also an Italian F4 champion and a Ferrari junior driver, but any genuine talent has always been clouded by his father’s extravagant and persuasive wealth.īy the reckoning of former F1 driver turned commentator Martin Brundle, Stroll was “probably not” good enough to graduate to F1 purely on merit. Stroll, who just finished 13 th in the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, joined Williams in 2017 after winning the European F3 championship the previous year. Lance Stroll, 20, will join F1 veteran Sergio Perez at Force India once his seat is made official.Īsked about racing with the son of the owner, Perez said: 'It's in the interest of everyone that both cars are as strong as possible.' On the other hand, for Stroll Jr’s many critics, the purchase is set to become another maddening episode in the career of F1’s latest “pay driver”. Currently known as Racing Point Force India, with the Stroll consortium name tagged on the front, the team is the fifth spin-off of Jordan Grand Prix a historic outfit that entered F1 back in 1991 and boasted drivers such as Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill. On one hand, it was excellent news, as Force India was in administration and needed saving.