Lance Stroll and Aston Martin presented the AMR23 on Monday at Silverstone. With this single-seater, the English brand’s third since its return to Formula 1, the team hopes to take another step towards winning a world title.
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This will be Stroll’s seventh car since his debut in motorsport’s premier class. Here’s an overview of all the racing cars he’s driven so far.
Williams FW40
In his very first F1 campaign, Stroll arrived at Williams as the team was in the midst of a downward spiral. In the previous three years, the Grove team’s performance declined, dropping from 320 points in 2014 to 257 the following year, and then to 138 in 2016.
After a difficult start marked by three consecutive retirements, Stroll scored his first points at the Canadian Grand Prix with a ninth place. From the following race, he climbed on the third step of the podium in Baku.
Stroll finally finished the season with 40 points, in 12th place, only three less than veteran Felipe Massa, vice-world champion in 2008.
Williams FW41
The descent accelerated for Williams in 2018 with a meager seven points, including six for Stroll. This time he teamed up with the Russian Sergey Sirotkin, who was playing his first – and last – season in F1. The latter was limited to a small point.
Stroll’s season was marked above all by the takeover of the Force India team by his father, the billionaire Lawrence Stroll. Renamed Racing Point, the team dropped Frenchman Esteban Ocon at the end of the season to make room for Lance.
Racing Point RP19
With his new team and pink car, Stroll started his 2019 season on a high with a ninth place finish in Australia.
As the team entered a period of change, notably with the commitment to build a new state-of-the-art factory, Stroll posted the best result of the season with a fourth place in Germany. He still fell 31 points behind his teammate Sergio Perez. He finished 15th in the driver standings.
Racing Point RP20
In 2020, Racing Point was strongly inspired by Mercedes’ car in 2019, crowned champion. Despite the criticism – and a penalty for illegal brake scoops bought from Mercedes – the strategy worked with 195 points from the manufacturers.
While this is undeniably Stroll’s best season so far – two podiums, 75 points and 11th place in the standings – he once again paled in comparison to Perez, fourth with 125 points.
Aston Martin AMR21
Lawrence Stroll didn’t just buy an F1 team. He also bought Aston Martin. The union of the two entities was therefore inevitable in 2021. But the results were not as expected.
Having four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel as his teammate this time around, Stroll looked good, conceding just nine points to the German in the final standings. His sixth place in Qatar was his best result.
Aston Martin AMR22
The 2022 season has been one of change with a complete overhaul of the technical regulations. The cars were bigger and heavier, and some drivers had more difficulty adjusting. This is the case of Stroll. Thus, he needed 17 races to do better than a 10th position.
Aston Martin certainly didn’t help with a badly born car while Vettel also struggled to string together good results. Good developments allowed both drivers to do better at the end of the season, but the team ranked seventh with 55 points, two-thirds of which were collected by Vettel.
Aston Martin AMR23
Hoping to have learned from its mistakes of the previous year, Aston Martin intends to make great progress this year. The arrival of Fernando Alonso to replace Vettel will certainly be an additional element of motivation.