Lance
Stroll

Lance Stroll was born in Montreal on 29 October 1998. He began karting at the age of ten and won numerous races and championships in Canada and across North America. In 2010 he joined the Ferrari Driver Academy. In 2014 he won the Italian F4 title with Prema Powerteam, in 2015 he took the Toyota Racing Series in New Zealand and finished fifth in the FIA Formula 3 European Championship. In November 2015 it was announced that he would leave the Ferrari academy to become a Williams test driver. In 2016 he won 14 races in the Formula 3 European Championship with Prema and clinched the title with four races still to run.

He made his Formula One debut for Williams at the 2017 Australian Grand Prix aged 18, alongside Felipe Massa. His first points came with ninth place at his home race in Canada. In Azerbaijan he finished third, becoming the second-youngest driver to reach a Formula One podium. At the Italian Grand Prix he started second, the youngest driver to line up on the front row. He ended the year twelfth, and in 2018, with Sergey Sirotkin as his team-mate, he finished eighteenth.

In 2019 he moved to Racing Point to race alongside Sergio Pérez, and finished fourth at the German Grand Prix. In 2020 he took his first pole position in Turkey, the first for a Canadian driver since Jacques Villeneuve in 1997. He led 32 laps there and finished ninth. He reached the podium at the Italian and Sakhir Grands Prix and ended the year eleventh.

From 2021 he drove for Aston Martin, first with Sebastian Vettel and from 2023 with Fernando Alonso. He finished thirteenth in 2021, fifteenth in 2022 and tenth in 2023, a year that included fourth in Australia and fifth places in São Paulo and Las Vegas. He was thirteenth in 2024 and sixteenth in 2025. In 2026 he continues with Aston Martin. Away from Formula One, he entered the 24 Hours of Daytona in 2016 and 2018, finishing fifth in 2016.

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