Lance Stroll team-mate, the two time world champion Fernando Alonso believes that Lance Stroll will change people’s mind when he gets competitive car in F1.
“I think the public eye will be always harder than what they should be,” Alonso told media including Motorsport Week in Las Vegas. “This is the world we are living [in].
“He was winning every single category before joining Formula 1.
“He had some good performances in Formula 1 and some bad performances in Formula 1, as everyone does.
“The unlucky thing for him is that he raced with uncompetitive cars for 90% of his career, which I think is brutal for any driver.
“We saw many examples in the past that if you don’t have a competitive car, you have a very short stay in Formula 1.
“An example is our reserve driver here, Stoffel [Vandoorne]. A very talented driver winning Formula 3, winning Formula 2, winning everything in karting.
“Then you get an uncompetitive car and after two years maybe you don’t race in Formula 1 anymore.
“Lance had uncompetitive cars for many years and he is still happy to keep committing and dreaming of having a competitive car one day.
“This is some of the mission that we all have in Aston Martin as well, to have a competitive car. I don’t know if I will benefit from that, because as I said I will not drive forever.
“But I hope he can have one day a competitive car and change the opinion of many, many people.”
Fernando Alonso has expressed a hope that Aston Martin team-mate Lance Stroll will be given a competitive car in Formula 1 to “change the opinion of many people”.
“I think Lance is very open always as I am with him,” Alonso added.
“I am in the final part of my career and I try to help him as much as I can because he will be leading the team very soon.
“I think this relationship was very strong since day one. I know Lance for many, many years. I know Lawrence as well.
“Lance is part of the team as well. His loyalty and his way of working with the team is maybe a little bit different than any other team-mate that I had in the past.
“They could go somewhere else in the following year or they were a little bit more reluctant to share things or to work together into the future.