I would replace Stroll. Maybe with Albon.

you really need to ask that question.....its like asking on a sunny day what color is the sky?

I'd have replaced him last year. He has odd moments where he performs as expected but Is so inconsistent and has a terrible attitude. I'd love to see botas in the car alongside alonso. Experience to bring the car forward

I wouldn’t have let Perez go when Vettel joined. There’s at least 30 people and maybe more I’m unaware of who would be better fits. It’s supposed to be one of the pinnacles of Motorsport, having incidents that you can see in civilian traffic and then not taking responsibility for it? Ugh. I can’t stand nepotism and other sorts of bias treatment,

No question, he would be gone. They will never be a real threat while he is on the team.

F1 should have some kind of system for verifying that veteran drivers are good enough to compete based on their results. (And someone whose teammate is more than 2 spots ahead of them more than 50% of the time in a year should be removed from formula 1.)

@@SamBrickell - That sort of system would definitely work in Alonso's favor.

One fighting the top, other fighting for last,... if we accept that the cars are identical, with only the driver and the driver's preferred setup being different, then Stroll just isn't up to the skill level needed.

@@PiDsPagePrototypes Stroll may be fighting for last but Sargeant is giving him a run for his money.

interesting how fighting for p8-9 puts you in the category of “fighting backmarkers”

Logan Sargeant: "Hold my beer"

Consistently shit 😂😂 Bro is aloof inside the track, no awareness at all 😂😂

Sargeant

They had us in the first half, ngl.

Consistently worse than his teammate goes to stroll, consistently BAD easily goes to Sargeant😂😭

It's a yoke!

THIS! Absolutely agree with you, mate. How you get away with causing an accident especially one as obvious as this, under SC without any real repercussion is absolutely mindboggling

Very true...why would 10 seconds matter if you are last😂

maybe not automatic, there are loads of different reasons a collision under the safety car could occur. But I agree that an investigation should be conducted once a collision under SC occurs to determine if a DQ is necessary, and in this particular case, it was.

Agree!

Oh! So no comeback for Latifi then?

@@mikehipperson 🤞

Sainz Alonso... It's a no brainer!!!

Ditto here. We Canadians have fallen a long way since the Villeneuves :(

ironic if Aston sign Daniel HaHa

Lance's claims are as founded as the ruler's of North Korea claiming to have never used the bathroom.

No idea where that shit came from, the kid is 25. What "technical knowledge" could he possibly have?

@@MarkoVukovic0 crumple zones maybe?

@@whosjozikolnik 🤣

How many wheels are on the car? About four more than the number of brain cells Lance has got

Lance does look like he should only be able to say his name. Like Matt Damon in Team America.

perfect reply :-)

Could Papa Stroll be thinking that since he kept Lance instead of Perez years ago, does he see Lance as a reasonable enough #2 driver just like Perez is at RB. We just witnessed Max singlehandedly carry RB for a season, so Papa Stroll assumes it can all be won by Alonso with a few points by Lance? It's the only thing I can come up with.

Yea, have daddy buy a hyper-car WEC team so his son's poor driving can be absorbed by a 3-person team.

You've forgotten Mazepin THAT quickly?

must be your 1st time watching F1 it seems

Exactly.

Shit dude put me in there I've got decent lap times on f1 24 lmao

Literally lmao If they had just kept Vettel and signed Alonso in place of Stroll, they would have beaten Mercedes last year in the constructors easily.

@@JustSomeDinosaurPerson Oooh man... What a team that would have been!!!

and he will crash that one too

Actually Pappa Stroll should send off Lance in one of his super yachts and leave him to play with all the toys out somewhere away from the F1 fraternity….He’d get a better bang for his buck and may just make AstonM a viable entity in F1. 🛥️ 🏖️ 😎

@@dingoeatswolf3663 imagine Carlos' and Fernando's pure domination of the podium's bottom 2 steps. It would be crazy AF. And IF, come 2026, Aston catches a good wind in the new regulations, a driver lineup like this could easily take the top 2 positions. Would be a good swan song for Nando's career, and a high note on which he could retire if he wants to.

​@@kemdomClearly don't understand why the team was brought in the first place!

@@leemartin3429 I absolutely understand why daddy Stroll bought his and his son's way into F1. What I don't understand is how can they be so thick in the brain not to understand they could create something BIG there. Lance could still be living off of daddy's money, race some endurance or touring car championship and actually be a decent driver there. In the F1 team he is nothing more than an anchor holding the team back while their signed drivers race in top 3-5 territory.

Bizarre logic. Certainly didn't happen at Alpine and Stroll being bad makes pretty much *any* driver carry the team he's at.

Funny, yes you are correct

Lance in 95% of post-race interviews: "It vexes me. I'm terribly vexed."

And Alonso is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the TRUE emperor, Marcus Aurelius.

@@unwokeneuropean3590 🗿

@@unwokeneuropean3590 Almost like his dad was the previous emperor and through his actions he is killing his father and his brand🤣🤣

Haha, *brake* pedal. But yeah, not sure what this "technical knowledge" is supposed to be.

I'm a Stroll fanboi tbh! Without Stroll RPM wouldn't be able to make nearly as many windowlicking memes All I can say is that he would be sorely missed by comedy enjoyers around the world

There are people who blindly defend him. I’ve seen people even defend him from this ridiculous incident. Either he’s got people on his PR who do this or there are people out there who are legitimately this stupid. Neither outcome would surprise.

@@Mammel248 could bring back Maldonado....wouldn't they be a duo?

Not a Lance hater but this guy needs a lesson in manners Lance would have received more positive feedback back if apologise for this action in driving into the back of someone car His father is not doing Lance any favours in realistic manner Lance did receive penalties maybe this will assist in this driving one can hope Lance is not doing Aston Martin any favours I would be fuming if I was a shareholder within Aston Martin Alsono has shown that the car has got promise this is being thrown away by Lance driving abilities

🙋‍♂️ I'm a Lance $troll fan

Yes! What a combo Alonso and Carlos would be! 😎

@@davidlynch9049 The Spanish Armada!

To OP. Alonso signed that Aston Martin contract *just because he knew Stroll will be his team mate and daddy Stroll wants Alonso to mentor his son* If Aston Martin really wanted Sainz they'd sign him by now and had they done so Alonso would *not* have stayed and extended his contract.

@@McLarenMercedes Oh I totally agree. We’re all just speculating what could be good teams with provided drivers on the market. Stroll will be here probably longer than we all expect. Which i don’t think anyone is surprised by except maybe Honda lol

They should, Alonso can’t carry the team to p2 or p3 in the constructors by himself.

Love this!

You win the internet!

Maybe shave a Chimpanzee and give it a Super Licence

The word is 'sycophant,' I think.

But *Alonso* signed a contract because he knows his only "competition" will be Stroll. Even if Lance suddenly quits I don't see neither Sainz nor Alonso seeing anything but trouble. You see they are both Spaniards and this would mean *one of them has to fall* . With Stroll having a rolling contract Alonso can chill. He'd *never* sign an extension going into his mid 40's if somebody good who might challenge him would come to the team. I'm amazed how some of you can't understand this.

As a father of two young children what I make of the situation is that Lance is a spoilt child with a case of arrested development. He has seemingly never managed to achieve anything in his life without his dad holding his hand and it has made him develop a sense of entitlement that is beyond his skill as a racing driver. He is unapologetic when he messes up because he has seemingly never been held accountable for his screw ups, in fact it is the exact opposite. Anytime he fails to deliver or completely messes up, the whole team is seemingly geared towards excusing his failings and instead talk him up even more. I’ve never heard of an F1 team “being built” around a driver that has spent his whole career being bested by his teammates, yet those are the exact words that came out of Aston Martin team principal Mike Krack’s mouth. It’s this misplaced cheerleading of this through and through mediocre driver, that has caused Lance to develop a sense of entitlement that he can do no wrong and that others are to blame for his failures. And why ? All because his father is the team owner! Lance has the worst teammate record in F1 right now bar Logan Sargeant. From 2017-2024 he has been bested by every teammate in the h2h qualifying stats. In fact the only time Lance has managed to best one of his teammates over a season in anything, was during the 2018 season h2h race finish stats against Sirotkin at Williams.

It'd be a fun conversation to imagine. Papa Stroll reminds Lance that his sister crashes fewer cars and is now under consideration for the seat.

Okay. We'll use his words at the interview instead No better

@@toolegittoquit_001 Hi, That’s my point and I agree with you 100%, he should have man’d up then and apologized to Ricardo and stated that he was wrong…..he didn’t therefore he deserves all this negative press. I’m actually with you here. 👍🏼

He's not a rookie. He's a highly paid professional driver in the pinnacle formula of motorsport. Yet, still behaving like a brat.

@@MarkoVukovic0 Sorry, but he is a rookie in F1 standards, do you compare him as an equal to his teammate Alonso as an equal? Of course not, he’s a rookie pal in F1, stop embarrassing yourself!!

That person you just accused of embarrassing themselves was not disagreeing with you... also they were right. A rookie is a person who is new to an organization or activity. In professional sports it almost always means a first-year competitor. The word refers to being inexperienced and/or untrained; it never refers to skill. Indeed, a rookie can be highly skilled just as a veteran can be highly unskilled. This is Lance Stroll's 8th season in F1. He is not a rookie.

for a team that chases performance and success first and foremost maybe. But the prime directive of this team is not that, but to have a seat to give to Lance. What possible arguments could Honda bring that would work for this list of priorities? Lawrence would sooner see the whole deal fail than replace Lance

@horiavelciu31 If the other investors were to join Honda, Stroll could be forced into a proxy fight that could devalue the entire property to a critical survival point. I don't think Daddy will throw away the much just to coddle his son. Add to that, if the driver's, or teams, said if he's out there he's alone out there....or if the FIA pulls his license.....

What a joke

Well, he's paid by the rich kid's daddy, and I'm sure the dude wants to keep his well paid job.

Load of tosh.

Oh please... Not too far from his teammate? Sure.

Couldn't agree more!

Alonso didn't crash into someone, Stroll did.

What language is that?

And yet, every single driver managed just fine.

@@_Jester_ That's beside the point. The rules clearly state that the first car have to keep a steady pace until he desiedes to start the race again. Max clearly admited that the was to blame but still didn't get a penalty. The fact that everybody every body else managed is beside the point.