Lance Stroll will continue to drive for Aston Martin next year “and beyond”, the team has announced.
His new contract means Stroll will spend at least eight years at his father Lawrence’s Formula 1 team.Stroll joined the team in 2019, when it was known as Racing Point. Lawrence Stroll later purchased the Aston Martin brand and rebranded his team after the car manufacturer.
“I’m super-happy to have committed to staying with the team for 2025 and beyond,” he said. “It’s amazing to see how far we’ve come in the last five years. We’ve grown so much as a team and there’s still so much more to look forward to.”
Fernando Alonso joined Stroll at the team last year and extended his contract to drive for them earlier this year. Today’s news confirms the pair will remain together at the team when F1 introduces its next set of technical regulations in 2026.
The 42-year-old, two-times world champion has said Stroll will lead Aston Martin once he retires.
Aston Martin team principal Mike Krack said Stroll has “played a key role in building this team. His technical feedback, alongside his committed simulator work, has helped contribute to the continuous development of the car each season.
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“The consistency and stability of both Lance and Fernando remaining with our team is a great platform to continue to realise our ambitions. We look forward to creating some more incredible memories and achieving further success together.”
The new means Aston Martin are the fourth team to officially confirm their driver line-up for 2025, though Stroll’s place at the team was never likely to be in doubt. Red Bull, Ferrari and McLaren have also set their pairings for next year.
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Jere (@jerejj)
27th June 2024, 10:52
Two announcements within the same day, albeit only ones that were likely for a little while & clear-cut the whole time, respectively.
Tristan
27th June 2024, 10:58
Yay! Stroll is such a great driver, I’m so excited to hear he’ll be on the grid for the foreseeable future. Nothing makes me happier to know that F1 is a place where such one of a kind talent such as Stroll’s is rewarded.
OOliver
27th June 2024, 11:47
Mercedes were close to signing him as Hamilton’s replacement as such Aston had to act fast to secure his service.
HAL
27th June 2024, 12:11
Yep, same for me. I’m also looking forward the his always inspirational, fun and dynamic interviews. The guy is really a great leader, bringing so much value to F1 and Aston Martin.
pcxmac (@pcxmac)
27th June 2024, 13:24
Im starting to think Lance’s father is a bit of a masochist.
bernasaurus (@bernasaurus)
27th June 2024, 13:40
Brilliant news. Obviously we don’t know for how many years, but a long term commitment like this obviously demonstrates the clear ambition at Aston Martin.
ferrox glideh (@ferrox-glideh)
27th June 2024, 15:00
Ferrox wept.
Sonny Crockett (@sonnycrockett)
27th June 2024, 15:37
You’re so right.
When I grow up, I want to be just like Lance Stroll. He’s the model professional and must be in the top 3 drivers ever to grace F1.
Behind the scenes, he does so much charity work too. I understand that he personally saved the Blue Whale from extinction and that he’s now working on a cure for cancer.
Nick T.
27th June 2024, 11:00
Wow, what a surprise. Frankly, this would be much less embarrassing if they didn’t have a press release which made it sound as if Lance was “committing” to another season with them. It should just be a one-line statement confirming Lance will be the team with them next year.
BTW, does this mean they’ve given up on Newey?
Alianora La Canta (@alianora-la-canta)
27th June 2024, 19:46
No, though it might mean Adrian’s decided to go elsewhere.
Fer no.65 (@fer-no65)
27th June 2024, 11:00
As underwhelming news as Perez’s contract extension.
Nulla Pax (@nullapax)
27th June 2024, 11:04
Well this is a bit of a shock.
Obviously Mercedes haven’t offered him enough and he has decided to stay with his Fathers struggling team in order to help them out.
What a wonderful chap he is.
Jazz (@jazz)
27th June 2024, 11:05
Imagine putting 90+ hours of solid graft into a part, conceptualisation, design, setting the budget, machining the part, CFD, however many hours in the autoclave, durability testing etc and then feeling instantly demoralised when you remember a spoilt man-child daddy’s boy is driving the car. Must be soup destroying.
Jazz (@jazz)
27th June 2024, 11:06
Soup destroying!!!! You know what I meant!!!
Tristan
27th June 2024, 11:09
What did the soup ever do to you? haha
You’re spot on though, crazy they’re spending so much on the team just to basically throw away a seat in the car. Alonso is great but ageing. It’d be great to see what a young gun could do next to him.
Nulla Pax (@nullapax)
27th June 2024, 11:14
I’ve never understood soup.
It’s neither a drink nor food.
Destroy it all with my blessing.
Nick T.
27th June 2024, 11:49
NO SOUP FOR YOU!
Fer no.65 (@fer-no65)
27th June 2024, 11:53
JAMBALAYA!
Nick T.
27th June 2024, 11:48
Sounds delicious. And soup is good for the soul they say.
Addme (@dontme)
27th June 2024, 11:35
Not really. The vast majority needs these sponsorships. Be it owner or driver, and it’s a small price to pay to work in F1.
Scotty (@rockonscotty)
27th June 2024, 12:05
The dread pirate Roberts is here for your SOUP!
PMccarthy_is_a_legend (@pmccarthy_is_a_legend)
27th June 2024, 12:53
90 hours??? That must be the quickest F1 car design of all time
AlanD
27th June 2024, 14:41
Soup Destroying! That’s the best typo of the year.
Coventry Climax
28th June 2024, 0:50
I just heard Campbell’s is going to sponsor AM..
72defender (@72defender)
27th June 2024, 11:07
I knew the comments section wouldn’t disappoint!
Nick T.
27th June 2024, 11:57
Yup, I knew this would draw comments quicker than just about anything besides Max announcing he was moving to Alpine with Briatore in the second seat.
SjaakFoo (@sjaakfoo)
27th June 2024, 11:15
You have to feel for the Aston Martin staff that have to work hard and prove their worth to the team, as anyone with nepo baby’s in their company can confirm, it sucks to see the boss’ kids get positions they neither deserve nor qualify for based on prior performance.
M2X
27th June 2024, 11:21
?
First full season as Racing Point, Stroll scored 75 points and finished 11th.
Last season when they had the best car in years, Stroll scored 74 points and finished 10th.
He is still making the same mistakes as he did 5 years ago.
There has been no progress in his skills or performance.
tielemst
27th June 2024, 12:17
Oh, but they have made significant progress! Only thing is the rest of the teams did too.
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
27th June 2024, 14:31
In fact at least he was a good wet weather driver few seasons ago, now not even that!
MichaelN
27th June 2024, 11:36
This is definitely going to convince top engineering talent to sign on to Aston Martin.
Mooa42
27th June 2024, 23:15
As an engineer if you build a car that can get Lance on a podium then you would be more valuable than Newey!
matt90
27th June 2024, 11:37
Good to see he’ll continue to be around to put the Stroll into the phrase ‘The driver least deserving to be in F1 is Stroll’.
GeeMac (@geemac)
27th June 2024, 11:40
Rocketpoweredmohawk intensifies…
Nick T.
27th June 2024, 11:50
Window licking intensifies
Esteban
28th June 2024, 5:03
The nerve, it’s soup destroying.
reggie747
27th June 2024, 11:55
He’s a happy looking soul ain’t he ???
Nick T.
27th June 2024, 11:58
Imagine waking up and seeing that face peering at you from the darkness. It’d scarier than George coming to abduct you on his spaceship.
Dex
27th June 2024, 12:00
I hope that this Krack guy is well paid for his job. It must be a very humiliating feeling to show up at work, being the “boss” of his boss’ son. I can only imagine his authority, and I can remember how humiliated he was inventing all the excuses for his “talented driver”, putting the blame on a weighbridge one time, no less.
Who knows, maybe Checo Perez is actually the lost son of someone from the Red Bull board, because he deserved his contract as much as this daddy’s have.
Dex
27th June 2024, 12:01
daddy’s boy *
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
27th June 2024, 14:35
Actually originally perez deserved the red bull contract, since he was replaced by a driver who was performing worse than him just because he happened to have more titles thanks to driving a better car in the early part of his career, he was driving really well in 2020 and had never been given a chance at a top team before, then was decent his first year at red bull, probably not much worse than bottas, then he just got worse, especially mid season 2023 and no longer deserves a top seat imo.
Dane
28th June 2024, 0:21
Perez at least won in a Racing Point which is more than Stroll will ever do.
Coventry Climax
27th June 2024, 12:22
In any of the activities that call themselves sports, the established participants are constantly chased and put to the test by young, very eager newcomers.
The seemingly -yet in reality artificially- limited pool of drivers that the teams choose from, over and over again, and the number of contracts, together with the amount of years that those are being prolonged, over and over again as well, make a complete farce out of the sporting aspect of F1.
A group of non challenged people calling themselves the world’s 20 best for a period of time decided by -longterm- contract?
In a sports, all of the contestants should continuously be challeged by new blood, all of them should be proving their worth constantly, at each and every event.
That’s in stark contrast to a rule stating they should run a newcomer in just three ‘events’ per year.
But about half the field being dubious? By either age or capabilities? Gasly, Perez, Hulkenberg, Ricciardo, Sargeant, Stroll, Magnussen, Ocon, Bottas, and arguably, agewise, Alonso and Hamilton?
Still calling a field of contestants like that a competitive sports is quite pathetic.
Just look at how the drivers are presented on your TV screen, beginning of every broadcast screen. Brought as heroes, nothing less. But that’s not sports, it’s marketing and story telling.
Let’s see some effort of ‘equal playing field’ put into all of the sporting aspects of this please.
JV
27th June 2024, 12:30
If Red Bull drops people who are not performing, people are upset.
Alianora La Canta (@alianora-la-canta)
27th June 2024, 19:49
It doesn’t help that F2 does not, this year, look like a series that is doing a good job of separating the wheat from the chaff.
DB-C90 (@dbradock)
27th June 2024, 12:27
Well at least he’s not taking up a seat in one of the cars/teams likely to be challenging for a WDC/WCC.
Electroball76
27th June 2024, 12:45
It’s easy to bash Lance and AM. It’s all a massive vanity project for him and his dad. But at least they are having fun, entertaining crowds, and keeping talented people employed. Aren’t most F1 teams a bit of a “vanity project” at the end of the day?
João
27th June 2024, 12:49
Could have kept this one for the daily round-up :P
HAL
27th June 2024, 13:54
Sure. And the rave of critics is part of that vanity project, so no worries. They get their fun, we get ours ;-)
José Lopes da Silva
27th June 2024, 14:14
I hope you’re not one of those people crying for meritocracy outside of F1
Dusty
27th June 2024, 13:20
Is it true Honda demanded this and are going to pay his salary? I’ve heard they wanted to have him. You know, no matter how bad the engine is, people will think it’s a driver issue.
AlanD
27th June 2024, 14:46
I read the first half of your post and thought “surely not”, but the second half was a laugh out loud moment.
dot_com (@dot_com)
27th June 2024, 13:47
That is such a shame.
asz
27th June 2024, 15:35
Aston Martin extend Stroll’s contract for as long as he wants to drive one of the cars. What is the point of ‘beyond 2025’?
Alianora La Canta (@alianora-la-canta)
27th June 2024, 19:51
To obfuscate when the contract awarded ends.
Sonny Crockett (@sonnycrockett)
27th June 2024, 15:40
Apparently, Adrian Newey INSISTED on Lance staying at Aston Martin.
LOL!
Edvaldo
27th June 2024, 16:06
He probably will take a couple more years to decide what he want to do with his life, so he’ll keep making his dad the favour of driving his car for now.
Riker (@corsair)
28th June 2024, 2:25
Obviously not unexpected. But still – very unfortunate.
Osnola
28th June 2024, 10:38
How unexpected, who could have guessed this…