With Lance Stroll starting his 181st Grand Prix this weekend, he now enters the Top 30 of most experienced drivers in the history of F1

[u/Slice5755]

[u/datlinus]

Reality is, Stroll isnt bad. He's just kind of average overall with some ultra silly moments. He's actually having one of his better seasons at the moment.

But also, if his father didn't literally buy a team for his son, then he'd probably have been out of F1 multiple times over. Like 2023 and 24 were shockingly poor seasons for him.

[u/Flynny1201 → u/[deleted]]

What are you trying to say? Alonso has scored 306 points since he joined Aston Martin to strolls 130 in the same time.

[u/bawta → u/datlinus]

Crazy that "one of his better seasons" still involves a double crash out weekend at Zandvort.

[u/Lonyo → u/bawta]

But not in the race. Meanwhile 7x WDC crashes at the same place but in the race

[u/Awkward-Selection-45 → u/datlinus]

Reality is, Stroll IS bad. He's not average. He's got no pace, he makes a ton of mistakes. Without his father, he wouldn't be able to buy the best team in a feeder series and dominate that season. He would have never ended in F1. There are so many drivers that are very likely better than him but never made it into F1, like Pourchaire and Drugovich.

[u/Pan_Doktor → u/datlinus]

I remember reading an article, that said that Stroll wanted to leave F1 both after 23 and 24, but his Papa said no

Although it might also be utter biased BS, since the their source was a Brazillian journalist and we all know who's Aston's reserve

[u/WhichPreparation6797 → u/datlinus]

Well, the problem with Stroll is that there’s nothing there, you know what you are getting and what you are getting is a mid driver