OttawaSteve

Not acceptable.

goin2drt

Little different putting together one flyer lap vs 56 perfect laps. The best will usually always win.

ronnie993tt

As a regular user of "Lance's" go kart track, I'm very grateful. I've spoken to Lawrence at Ferrari weekends before I even knew who he was and found him quite pleasant. Never met the kid though.

DJF1

You sound very bitter. Another frustrated wannabe F1 racer maybe? Yes his Dad has money. Yes he made his money. Yes he gave everything to his kid that he could. I do the same. What is wrong with that? The kid can drive and has been driving an F1 car for years. He put it on pole where the 7 times now champ could not do it. Where Super Max, could not do it.

What do you have to show for your self, besides hatred and vile venom out of jealousy?

Mike K.

Gotta give you the Bitter part. And have to bow to your vast knowledge about Lance. You win.

Jet Jockey

I'll agree with the Stroll part but to say Quebec is full of ******** as opposed to what, Ontario and other provinces being full of ******** too?

You must be a person with a very, very narrow minded view.

Imo000

My son races karts and there are a couple of people that were involved with karting when Lance boy was buying and basically cheating his way up the ranks. There are stories flying around, first hand experience ones, that would make you think twice what Lance deserves or not. His father ruined an entire class of kart racing with this money. Pretty much anyone can be thought how to drive an F1 car if there is enough money. OK maybe not everyone but you get the point. Money can override talent. One of the stories is that Daddy Lance bought up all the 2 stroke cylinders at the beginning of the season, had them all measure, kept the best 3 or so, sent the next 10 to the scrapyard and returned the rest to the vendor to sell it to everyone else.

I was happy to see him on pole and was hoping he will be able to hang in there and prove everyone wrong but that didn't happen. He blamed the tires when they interviewed him and yet his team mate got second with the same equipment. I see this kind of behavior in karting all the time when the conditions are less than ideal. Drivers blaming the equipment and not themselves. Man up and take the blame. There is nothing wrong with that.

Jet Jockey

I totally agree with you.

Lance is at best is a second rate F1 driver and will always be at best a second driver in a top level F1 team.

At Williams or at RP, the other drivers in the same team with the same car usually beat him fair and square. I will say that lance has shown he is very good some of the time in tricky/slippery conditions.

Now this said Lance is certainly able to drive better than all of us here on this forum but he will never be a Prost, a Senna, a Max, a Lauda a Leclerc or a Hamilton... These drivers were/are exceptional drivers with extraordinary natural talents of the likes a Michael Jordan, a Lebron James in the NBA or a Wayne Gretzki or Mario Lemieux in hockey.

At the Turkish GP, although he was in the lead until he pitted, things fell apart after the pit stop because he could not switch the Inters "ON" like the other drivers.

If Vettel next year blows him out of the water on track, then the partners at Aston Martin will have to decide what actions to take in regards to their drivers.

Enough said.

Mike K.

Never heard that exact story, though par for the course. Racing is about gaining an edge. cheating is not. Mercedes clone?

Gregster

Canada doing what it does best. ****ting on local talent.

Mike K.

Really Greg? We have had some really great talent. JF, Spenard etc. This is more of a sad story.

Jet Jockey

Not at all, just calling it the way I see it.

BTW, I never said he wasn't talented, just not as good as people think he is and again certainly not a top F1 driver.

Canada has produced some really good if not exceptional drivers in the past and I'm sure will produce more in the future... Here are a few Canadian drivers that made a mark in auto racing... Gilles Villeneuve, his son Jacques Villeneuve (he won the F1 Driver's Championship plus the Indy 500), Jean-Francois Dumoulin (24 hours of Daytona, twice), his brother Louis-Philippe, Richard Spénard, the unfortunate Greg Moore, Bruno Spengler (DTM for Mercedes and BMW).

I am sure that I am forgetting some other drivers that should be added to my list above and I apologize for it.

Mike K.

I think you said what I just said. Ok , maybe you said it better!

Jet Jockey

Torontoworker

The bottom of the front wing was damaged on lap 30 or 31. The data and radio transmissions to and from the cockpit attest to an issue was noticed when Lance started to understeer and rooted his 1st set of intermediate tires. The team boxed him to put on another set of tires hoping it was just the tires and it didn't solve the issue. Autosport reported that an under-wing aero device (something called a 'strake') had broken off and lodged under the wing which interrupted the airflow and stalled the front wing. Data is showing he lost 40% download to the front wing. We saw this a race ago at Imola when someone picked up a piece of Seb's Ferrari and got stuck under the front wing and the same handling issues developed. These generation of cars are so touchy to this type of stuff now.