Lance Stroll

Lance Stroll
Nationality Canada Canadian
Born (1998-10-29) 29 October 1998
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Related to Lawrence Stroll (father)
Claire-Anne Stroll (mother)
European Formula Three Championship career
Debut season 2015
Current team Prema Powerteam
Car no. 1
Starts 62
Wins 15
Poles 14
Fastest laps 13
Best finish 1st in 2016
Previous series
2015
2014
2014		 Toyota Racing Series
Italian Formula 4 Championship
Florida Winter Series
Championship titles
2016
2015
2014		 Euro F3 Championship
Toyota Racing Series
Italian Formula 4 Championship

Lance Stroll (born 29 October 1998) is a Canadian racing driver competing in the FIA Formula 3 European Championship.

Personal life

Stroll is the son of billionaire Canadian businessman Lawrence Stroll and Claire-Anne Stroll.

Career

Like many race drivers, the Geneva-based Canadian began his motorsport career in karting and recorded numerous race and championship wins in his native Canada and North America.

Early years (2008–2014)

He was nominated by the Fédération de Sport Automobile du Québec as Rookie of the Year in 2008. Also winning the Coupe de Montreal Championship, and crowned Canadian Champion the same year. He won Driver of the Year the following year. In 2010 he won no fewer than four titles in the Florida Winter Tour, in the Canadian ASN Championship and the Coupe de Quebec. In 2011 Stroll ran with Dino Chiesa Team in the Italian Kart Championship and finished eighteenth while in the WSK Euro Series with 44 points to take ninth place in the KF3 class championship. In 2012, the young Canadian continued his experience alongside the team and won the Las Vegas Trophy, finishing fourth in the WSK Master, fifth in the World Championship CIK-FIA, eighth in the Euro CIK-FIA and twelfth in the WSK Euro. In 2013, Stroll competed in the KF category in the CIK and WSK Championships once again with Chiesa Corse team and was recognised as the best rookie.

Formula Three

2015

At the beginning of 2015, Stroll won the New Zealand-based Toyota Racing Series, recording 10 podiums – including four wins – from 16 race starts. The same year he also contested the FIA Euro F3 Series with the Italian Prema team, winning one race outright and achieving 17 top-six overall race finishes in the ultra-competitive 33-race series driving a Dallara F312 Mercedes. Stroll closed out his busy 2015 season – contesting 50 races in all – making his debut in the Macau Formula 3 Grand Prix.

Stroll was part of the Ferrari Driver Academy and the second youngest driver to be signed to a Formula One team. On 11 November 2015, it was announced that Stroll would leave Ferrari to serve as a test driver for Williams.

2016

Stroll remained with the Prema Powerteam, for a third consecutive year, to contest the Euro F3 Series for a second year. He began 2016 by finishing 5th in the Rolex 24 at Daytona in a Ford Chip Ganassi Racing entered Ford EcoBoost Prototype to become the youngest highest-placed overall finisher in the history of the event.

In the 2016 Euro F3 series, Stroll took eleven wins and claimed the title in the second race at Imola, over a hundred points clear of his main rival Maximilian Günther.

Formula One

Williams (2017)

On 3 November 2016, Williams Martini Racing announced that Stroll will drive for them in 2017 Formula One season. He will become the first Canadian F1 driver since the 1997 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve, who coincidentally started his F1 career at Williams.[1]

Racing record

Career summary

Season Series Team Races Wins Poles FLaps Podiums Points Position
2014 Florida Winter Series N/A 12 0 0 0 2 N/A
Italian Formula 4 Championship Prema Powerteam 18 7 5 11 13 331 1st
2015 Toyota Racing Series M2 Competition 16 4 0 1 10 906 1st
FIA European Formula 3 Championship Prema Powerteam 32 1 0 0 6 231 5th
Macau Grand Prix 1 0 0 0 0 N/A 8th
Formula One Scuderia Ferrari Development driver
2016 FIA European Formula 3 Championship Prema Powerteam 30 14 14 13 20 507 1st
Formula One Williams Martini Racing Development driver

Complete FIA European Formula 3 Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Entrant Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 DC Points
2015 Prema Powerteam Mercedes SIL
1
6		 SIL
2
4		 SIL
3
Ret		 HOC
1
6		 HOC
2
14		 HOC
3
6		 PAU
1
9		 PAU
2
10		 PAU
3
4		 MNZ
1
11		 MNZ
2
Ret		 MNZ
3
DSQ		 SPA
1
31		 SPA
2
Ret		 SPA
3
EX		 NOR
1
8		 NOR
2
4		 NOR
3
26		 ZAN
1
4		 ZAN
2
Ret		 ZAN
3
5		 RBR
1
4		 RBR
2
3		 RBR
3
5		 ALG
1
4		 ALG
2
3		 ALG
3
3		 NÜR
1
9		 NÜR
2
3		 NÜR
3
2		 HOC
1
1		 HOC
2
6		 HOC
3
Ret		 5th 231
2016 Prema Powerteam Mercedes LEC
1
1		 LEC
2
Ret		 LEC
3
5		 HUN
1
4		 HUN
2
8		 HUN
3
3		 PAU
1
9		 PAU
2
4		 PAU
3
2		 RBR
1
2		 RBR
2
1		 RBR
3
1		 NOR
1
1		 NOR
2
2		 NOR
3
1		 ZAN
1
1		 ZAN
2
Ret		 ZAN
3
Ret		 SPA
1
1		 SPA
2
Ret		 SPA
3
4		 NÜR
1
1		 NÜR
2
1		 NÜR
3
2		 IMO
1
2		 IMO
2
1		 IMO
3
1		 HOC
1
1		 HOC
2
1		 HOC
3
1		 1st 507

References

  1. ↑ "Williams Confirms Driver Line Up for the 2017 Season". Williams Martini Racing. 3 November 2016. Retrieved 3 November 2016.

External links

See also

Quebec F1 pilots
Sporting positions
Preceded by
Inaugural		 Italian Formula 4
Champion
2014 		Succeeded by
Ralf Aron
Preceded by
Andrew Tang		 Toyota Racing Series
Champion
2015 		Succeeded by
Lando Norris
Preceded by
Nick Cassidy		 New Zealand Grand Prix
Winner
2015 		Succeeded by
Lando Norris
Preceded by
Felix Rosenqvist		 European Formula 3
Champion
2016 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
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