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Aston Martin must consider Stroll exit unless pace improves โ€“ Rosberg (www.motorsportweek.com)
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2016 Formula 1 World Champion Nico Rosberg asserts that Aston Martin will have to consider dropping Lance Stroll if he fails to reduce the deficit to his team-mate.

Stroll recovered from missing the entirety of pre-season testing with two broken wrists to come home sixth in Bahrain before following that up with fourth place in Australia.

However, the Canadianโ€™s form has slumped since and he has been unable to match new team-mate Fernando Alonso, who has notched seven podiums to Strollโ€™s zero.

The margin between the two Aston Martin drivers currently stands out at 123 points, with only the Red Bull pairing separated by more with eight rounds remaining this year.

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[โ€“] 21 points 3 years ago (1 child)

They should consider breaking his wrists again, he drove better that way

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    • [โ€“] 8 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    • 2009: Alonso 26, Grosjean/Piquet Jr 0

    • 2010: Alonso 252, Massa 144

    • 2011: Alonso 211, Massa 118

    • 2012: Alonso 278, Massa 122

    • 2013: Alonso 242, Massa 112

    • 2014: Alonso 161, Rรคikkรถnen 55

    • 2015: Alonso 11, Button 16 * Alonso joined team after season start

    • 2016: Alonso 54, Button 21

    • 2017: Alonso 17, Button 0

    • 2018: Alonso 50, Vandoorne 12

    How will Alonso ever stay motivated without a teammate as fast as himself? Lance is so slow he could barely keep up with Sebastian Vettel.

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Lance is so slow he could barely keep up with Sebastian Vettel.

    The hell is that supposed to mean. Vettel is not some random driver they pulled off the street. He is one of the best drivers of all time, same as Alonso.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 3 years ago*

    It means that Stroll came much closer to matching the performance of Vettel than his detractors would like to admit, and Alonso has more talent than the entire field right now excepting possibly Verstappen,

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    • [โ€“] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    How do they write an entire article like that without mentioning that the team is owned by Lance's billionaire dad?

    Whether or not you think Stroll got where he is based on pure nepotism, it's pretty unlikely his dad would fire him and continue running the team with another pair of drivers.

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    • [โ€“] 6 points 3 years ago

    This is idiotic. Lawrence Stroll keeps buying world champions to try and prop up his boy. Vettel, Alonso, I bet you after that heโ€™ll sign up Hamilton. This whole thing is just a vanity project for Lawrence to give his loin squirt a boost.

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    [โ€“] 4 points 3 years ago

    Give me Perez and Alonso!

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