Lance Stroll, Aston Martin, Shanghai, 2025

Stroll to return at Canadian Grand Prix after Paul Ricard test

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Lance Stroll will be on the grid for his home round this weekend after missing the last race due to injury, Aston Martin has confirmed.

He pulled out of the Spanish Grand Prix due to pain in his right wrist, which he injured in a pre-season cycling crash in February 2023.

Aston Martin has not confirmed details of the procedure Stroll had on his wrist since withdrawing from the last round of the championship at the Circuit de Catalunya. However the team says he is well enough to take part in this weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix having driven an F1 car in France recently.

“We are pleased to confirm that Lance Stroll will be back with the team competing in Montreal this weekend. He had a successful medical procedure to resolve the symptoms he has been experiencing and completed some laps in an old F1 car at Paul Ricard earlier this week,” said the team in a statement. “Lance is feeling fit and healthy, and is excited to compete in front of his home crowd.”

Stroll took part in all three practice sessions and qualifying for the previous round in Spain, which was the third grand prix in as many weekends. He was eliminated in the second round of qualifying.

The driver told the FIA he required “urgent medical attention for the pain” in his wrist after qualifying. He gave this as his reason for failing to report for weighing at the end of the session, as required by the rules. The FIA cleared him of an infringement but issued a formal warning to his team.

He originally broke the wrist shortly before testing began ahead of the 2023 season. Stroll was unable to participate in testing but returned in time for the start of the season, driving with screws in his injured wrist.

Stroll, the son of Aston Martin owner Lawrence Stroll, is the team’s highest-scoring driver so far this year with 14 points to Fernando Alonso’s two. He said he is “excited to get back behind the wheel with the team for my home grand prix this weekend.”

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36 comments on “Stroll to return at Canadian Grand Prix after Paul Ricard test”

  1. Adam (@rocketpanda)
    11th June 2025, 15:13

    … and the crowd goes mild

    1. Quote of the week

  2. Great, now Verstappen can hand the duty of driving into people without reason back to its original owner.

    1. So far this season, crashes have been Alonso’s job. In Spain though, he managed not to crash, barely. That is why Alonso only has one point so far, while Stroll has 14. I am sure Aston Martin will be happy that their lead driver is back again.

      1. This is some revisionist trash.

        Aus – Accident in the wet, yes, but Gasly had knocked gravel onto the track and Alonso had misfortune on the curb. (Lance 6th due to luck and attrition)
        Chi – Brake failure, not his fault. (Lance P9)
        Jap – P11 (Lance P20)
        Bah – P15 (Lance P17)
        Sau – P11 (Lance P16)
        Mia – P15 (Lance P16)
        Imo – P11 (Lance P15)
        Mon – Engine failure, not his fault. (Lance P15)
        Bar – P9 (Lance WD)

        So that is their season so far, how many crashes do you count? “Lead driver”? Do I need to post the results from the last couple of years? How about quali results from THIS year? Do you even watch the sport?

        1. Thank you Jason for upholding some modicum of sensibility in this place.

          1. I think you mean “sense” as “sensibility” would normally be used with this meaning:
            A way of feeling. A person’s aesthetic or ethical sensibility is described by telling what kinds of situation generate different kinds of aesthetic or ethical response.

            Damned complicated language.

          2. You’re welcome @Kringle.

      2. Yeah get rid of ALO. Those 8 podiums a couple of years ago were a fluke.

  3. And he’ll take another easy stroll.

  4. Until he has a bad Quali, gets angry, spits the dummy and hurts himself again of course.

  5. How surprising.

  6. Eager to thank his supporters with a blinding performance to start 18th on the grid again, his favourite number.

    1. Crazy how he has managed to score seven times more points than Alonso by starting so far back huh

      1. He’s very good in eventful races, gotta give him that. His best results all came in these survival-first races, when he brought it safely while others crashed and made mistakes around him.

        1. He’s not without talent, its just consistency and hes up against probably the most consistent driver on the grid. He’s not liked but even if he was really good their are a billion reasons he’d be unpopular.

          1. Coventry Climax
            12th June 2025, 10:52

            I’d say his results are remarkably consistent though.

        2. While I have to say for a pay driver he isn’t the worst and sometimes he can do something good on the track (AND having a lot of luck)

      2. Have you watched the races this year? Serious question. Stroll had good fortune very early in the season, particularly in Aus when he got 6th in a race with heavy attrition. The driver who has DRIVEN better this year for them, is Fernando, easily. The driver who has had better luck? Lance, easily.

  7. Almost like he doesn’t want anyone else to jump into that seat even temporarily for some reason.

  8. Dont make him angry, you wouldn’t like him when he’s angry*

    *one for fans of early 80s Saturday afternoon TV

    1. I was thinking early 1940s (Droopy) – and it’s still going.
      If the kiddies want to re-use it 40 years on, they do say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

      1. It’s 2025, just saying.

    2. Quote of Doctor Banner :)

      1. Quoting Droopy :)

  9. I guess the Mickey Mouse band aide on the “ouchy” worked.

    1. Coventry Climax
      12th June 2025, 10:55

      Yep. And all of Montreal is massively releaved to have one less essential talking point now.

  10. Alright I’m wading into this – I don’t see all the hate for Stroll – sure daddy bought the team, but I dare someone to provide some actual metrics for determining he doesn’t deserve his drive, and apply them to the entire grid and realize half the grid is gone by those same metrics. At this point i think only drivers from poor backgrounds with no famous last name who built their own race cars and who have never done something dumb on track are acceptable anymore….

    Getting a seat in F1 in the post-gentleman racer era has never been fair or completely on driver merit…..get over it

    1. It’s almost impossible that a driver that lost every single season to it’s team mate to keep a seat in F1. In 2020 Perez finished P4 and he P11. ANY driver on the grid would have lost his seat at that season.

      1. So in 2022 we get rid of Zhou who was 8 places behind Bottas then….

    2. Getting a seat in F1 … has never been fair or completely on driver merit

      Fixed.

    3. Coventry Climax
      12th June 2025, 11:00

      So no metrics, you say, to judge him by. That’s easily contested, but:

      Despite no metrics you draw the conclusion that others wouldn’t qualify against those (which ones again?) .. either?

      False grounds to draw conclusions from and no justification for Lance.

  11. What does it take for this one to go away. It’s like reverse Red Bull. Getting rewarded with more races the worse he does.

  12. Given how some on here talk about Alonso as some kind of Deity, given the current points position, why aren’t those people proclaiming how awesome Stroll would be in a decent car?

    1. An Sionnach
      11th June 2025, 22:51

      So, is Stroll seven times better than Alonso… or seventy times better?!?

      1. Coventry Climax
        12th June 2025, 11:05

        Sure. But it depends on your definition and metrics (popular word here, all of a sudden) for the word ‘better’.

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