Lance Stroll has damaged a Method 1 document – however he received’t be blissful about it.
The Aston Martin driver claimed the doubtful landmark throughout Saturday’s qualifying for the F1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
Stroll will line up disappointingly in sixteenth for Sunday’s race in Jeddah.
He has damaged the document for essentially the most Q1 qualifying exits in F1 historical past, after being eradicated at that stage for a seventy fifth time.
Stroll has edged the undesirable document from Kevin Magnussen, who was dumped out 74 occasions from Q1.
Lance Stroll has damaged an undesirable Method 1 document
It’s Stroll’s third Q1 elimination of 2025, additionally exiting early in Japan and Bahrain.
His Aston Martin teammate Fernando Alonso was solely thirteenth in qualifying for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
It highlights the present uncompetitiveness of the Aston Martin.
Crew boss Andy Cowell has confirmed that Adrian Newey, their high-profile automotive design genius recruited dramatically from Crimson Bull, received’t be impacting their automotive this 12 months.
That’s as a result of Newey’s full focus has been positioned on subsequent 12 months, when new F1 laws supply Aston Martin an opportunity to burst out of the traps with the perfect bundle.
Within the meantime, Alonso and Stroll are battling uphill with their present machine.
For Stroll, breaking this undesirable F1 document on Saturday in Saudi Arabia is an extra setback towards him.
Because the son of Aston Martin’s billionaire proprietor Lawrence Stroll, he often comes underneath intense scrutiny for his place within the sport.
The Canadian driver shall be hoping to edge forwards from sixteenth to avoid wasting face from this weekend.
