Lance Stroll branded his Aston Martin “the worst piece of sh** I’ve ever pushed” after a chaotic British Grand Prix, regardless of salvaging seventh place.
The Canadian loved a powerful race at Silverstone, working as excessive as third through the center a part of the race.
Nonetheless, Stroll struggled with tyre degradation because the observe started to dry out, dropping to fifth behind Nico Hulkenberg and Lewis Hamilton.
Stroll misplaced two extra locations within the closing few laps to Max Verstappen and Pierre Gasly, ultimately ending seventh.
After the race, Stroll delivered a brutal evaluation of Aston Martin’s 2025 F1 automobile.
His engineer, Gary Gannon, praised Stroll for an “superb end”
“Yeah. Loopy automobile to drive, superb end,” Gannon stated.
Stroll replied: “Yeah ‘loopy’ is an understatement, I imply it’s the worst piece of sh** I’ve ever pushed in my life to be trustworthy. But it surely’s okay. seventh.”
Stroll’s seventh-place end means he’s pulled forward of Aston Martin teammate Fernando Alonso within the drivers’ championship.
Alonso completed ninth after the assorted tyre methods didn’t work in his favour.
The 2-time F1 champion voiced his frustration over workforce radio consequently, suggesting that the tyre calls are by no means proper on his facet of the storage versus Stroll’s.
Stroll completed sixth throughout a rain-hit Australian Grand Prix initially of the yr, recovering from one other poor qualifying show.
Reflecting on his race at Silverstone, Stroll stated: “Very blended weekend for us at Silverstone – we confirmed some first rate tempo throughout Observe on Friday, which sadly we couldn’t construct on throughout Qualifying and began from the again at the moment.
“The workforce made some good technique calls through the race and total outcome.
“I actually struggled with tyre degradation and sadly we weren’t able the place we may combat for extra. [Nico] Hülkenberg had much more grip throughout that final stint and with the extent of degradation we bought the absolute best outcome at the moment.”
Cowell praises Stroll
Aston Martin boss Andy Cowell praised Lance Stroll after he “didn’t put a wheel misplaced” through the 52-lap race.
“It was an intense and difficult afternoon in Silverstone with Lance and Fernando battling onerous to attain eight factors between them [Lance P7 and Fernando P9],” Cowell stated.
“We have been combating on the entrance, however our tempo dropped off because the DRS was enabled and the observe continued to dry. We most likely switched Fernando to the dry tyres a bit too early, however he managed to recuperate to the factors.
“Lance drove very effectively at the moment: he didn’t put a wheel misplaced. Given the tempo of the automobile, P7 is a superb outcome.
“In these wet races, you usually mirror and see alternatives the place you possibly can have completed issues in another way – and most groups most likely really feel the identical – however we could be happy to get each vehicles within the factors at our dwelling race.”
