Lance Stroll

Personal life

Stroll is Jewish, and is the son of billionaire Canadian businessman Lawrence Stroll and Belgian fashion designer Claire-Anne Callens.

Career

Like many race drivers, the Geneva-based Canadian began his motorsport career in karting. He recorded numerous race and championship wins in his native Canada and North America.

2015

At the beginning of 2015, Stroll won the New Zealand-based Toyota Racing Series, recording 10 podiums – including four wins – from 16 race starts. The same year he also contested the FIA Euro F3 Series with the Italian Prema team, winning one race outright and achieving 17 top-six overall race finishes in the 33-race series driving a Dallara F312 Mercedes. Stroll finished the season, during which he drove in 50 races, at the Macau Formula 3 Grand Prix.

Stroll was part of the Ferrari Driver Academy, and the second-youngest driver to be signed to a Formula One team. On 11 November 2015, it was announced that Stroll would leave Ferrari to serve as a test driver for Williams.

2016

Stroll remained with the Prema Powerteam, for a third consecutive year, to contest the Euro F3 Series for a second year. He began 2016 by finishing 5th in the Rolex 24 at Daytona in a Ford Chip Ganassi Racing entered Ford EcoBoost Prototype to become the youngest highest-placed overall finisher in the history of the event.

In the 2016 Euro F3 series, Stroll took 11 wins and claimed the title in the second race at Imola, over 100 points clear of his main rival Maximilian Günther.

Williams (2017)

On 3 November 2016, Williams Martini Racing announced that Stroll would drive for them in 2017. He became the first Canadian Formula One driver since the 1997 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve, who coincidentally also started his Formula One career at Williams. After three retirements, Stroll's first race finish came at the fourth round in Russia, where he finished in eleventh despite spinning on the first lap.. In the Spanish Grand Prix, Stroll finished sixteenth and last of all the drivers to finish the race. Two weeks later, Stroll retired after brake failure in Monaco, but was still classified 15th. Stroll scored his first points in his home Grand Prix in Montreal, finishing in 9th place.

Stroll got his first podium by finishing third in the eventful 2017 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, becoming the youngest rookie driver to climb on a Formula 1 podium, at the age of 18 years and 239 days.

On 2 September 2017, Stroll registered the 4th fastest time during a wet qualifying session for the Italian Grand Prix. Due to both Red Bull drivers Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen (respectively 3rd and 2nd) taking grid penalties, Stroll was promoted to the 2nd place on the starting grid, making him the youngest Formula One driver to start on the front row of a race at the age of 18 years and 310 days. Stroll finished 7th in the race.

Career summary

* Season still in progress.

Complete FIA European Formula 3 Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Complete Formula One results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

* Season still in progress.
^† Did not finish, but was classified as he had completed more than 90% of the race distance.