Lance Stroll

Lance Stroll
Nationality	Canadian
Born	29 October 1998 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Related to	Lawrence Stroll (father) & Claire-Anne Stroll (mother)
European Formula Three Championship career
Debut season	2015
Current team	Prema Powerteam
Car no.	1
Starts	39
Wins	2
Poles	1
Fastest laps	2
Best finish	5th in 2015
Previous series
2015 2014 2014	Toyota Racing Series Italian Formula 4 Championship Florida Winter Series
Championship titles
2015 2014	Toyota Racing Series Italian Formula 4 Championship

Lance Stroll (born 29 October 1998) is a Canadian racing driver competing in the FIA Formula 3 European Championship.

Career

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

Early years (2008–2013)

He was nominated by the Fédération de Sport Automobile du Québec as Rookie of the Year in 2008 and Driver of the Year the following year. In 2010 he won no fewer than four titles in the Florida Winter Tour, in the Canadian ASN Championship and the Coupe de Quebec. In 2011 Stroll ran with Dino Chiesa Team in the Italian Kart Championship and finished eighteenth while in the WSK Euro Series with 44 points to take ninth place in the KF3 class championship. In 2012, the young Canadian continued his experience alongside the team and won the Las Vegas Trophy, finishing fourth in the WSK Master, fifth in the World Championship CIK-FIA, eighth in the Euro CIK-FIA and twelfth in the WSK Euro. In 2013, Stroll competed in the KF category in the CIK and WSK Championships once again with Chiesa Corse team and was recognised as the best rookie.

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 ultra-competitive 33-race series driving a Dallara F312 Mercedes. Stroll closed out his busy 2015 season – contesting 50 races in all – making his debut in 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 the Williams F1 team.

2016

Stroll remains 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.

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	FLaps	Podiums	Points	Position
2014	Florida Winter Series	N/A	12	0	0	0	2	N/A
	Italian Formula 4 Championship	Prema Powerteam	18	7	5	11	13	331	1st
2015	Toyota Racing Series	M2 Competition	16	4	0	1	10	906	1st
	FIA European Formula 3 Championship	Prema Powerteam	33	1	0	0	6	231	5th
	Macau Grand Prix		1	0	0	0	0	N/A	8th
	Formula One	Scuderia Ferrari	Development driver
2016	FIA European Formula 3 Championship	Prema Powerteam	6	1	1	2	2	66	2nd*
	Formula One	Williams Martini Racing	Development driver

^* Season still in progress.

Complete FIA European Formula 3 Championship results

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

Year	Entrant	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	DC	Points
2015	Prema Powerteam	Mercedes	SIL 1 6	SIL 2 4	SIL 3 Ret	HOC 1 6	HOC 2 14	HOC 3 6	PAU 1 9	PAU 2 10	PAU 3 4	MNZ 1 11	MNZ 2 Ret	MNZ 3 DSQ	SPA 1 31	SPA 2 Ret	SPA 3 EX	NOR 1 8	NOR 2 4	NOR 3 26	ZAN 1 4	ZAN 2 Ret	ZAN 3 5	RBR 1 4	RBR 2 3	RBR 3 5	ALG 1 4	ALG 2 3	ALG 3 3	NÜR 1 9	NÜR 2 3	NÜR 3 2	HOC 1 1	HOC 2 6	HOC 3 Ret	5th	231
2016	Prema Powerteam	Mercedes	LEC 1 1	LEC 2 Ret	LEC 3 5	HUN 1 4	HUN 2 8	HUN 3 3	PAU 1	PAU 2	PAU 3	RBR 1	RBR 2	RBR 3	NOR 1	NOR 2	NOR 3	ZAN 1	ZAN 2	ZAN 3	SPA 1	SPA 2	SPA 3	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	NÜR 3	IMO 1	IMO 2	IMO 3	HOC 1	HOC 2	HOC 3				2nd*	66

^* Season still in progress.

References

• Biography at motorsport.com

External links

• Lance Stroll career summary at DriverDB.com
• Profile at ferrari.com