Lance Stroll · Biography

Lance Stroll made his Formula One debut on 26 March 2017 at the Australian Grand Prix, driving for Williams. He retired from that first race. Born Lance Jacob Strulovitch on 29 October 1998 in Montreal, Quebec, he is the son of businessman Lawrence Stroll and Belgian fashion designer Claire-Anne Callens. He holds Canadian and Belgian citizenship but races under the Canadian flag. He has driven for Aston Martin since 2021.

Karting and the Ferrari academy

Stroll started karting in 2008. That year he won the Coupe de Quebec, the Coupe de Montreal and the Canadian national title in Rotax Micro Max. In 2009 he finished second in the national Rotax Mini Max championship and in the Florida Winter Tour. In 2010 he won the Florida Winter Tour in Mini Max and the Canadian national title in Rotax Junior. The same year he joined the Ferrari Driver Academy, where he stayed until November 2015, when he left to become a Williams test driver.

Junior single-seater titles

He won the 2014 Italian F4 Championship with Prema Powerteam, with seven wins and 331 points. Early in 2015 he raced in New Zealand and won the Toyota Racing Series with M2 Competition, with four wins and 906 points. In 2016 he returned to Prema for the FIA Formula 3 European Championship and won it with 14 victories and 507 points, 187 clear of the runner-up. That year he also raced in the 24 Hours of Daytona with Ford Chip Ganassi Racing and finished fifth overall. In November 2016 Williams confirmed him as a race driver for 2017 alongside Valtteri Bottas. Felipe Massa ended up as his teammate after Bottas moved to Mercedes.

Williams (2017–2018)

After retiring in Melbourne, he scored his first points at home on 11 June 2017, finishing ninth in the Canadian Grand Prix from 17th on the grid. On 25 June he finished third in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Baku and became the youngest rookie to reach a Formula One podium. At that year’s Italian Grand Prix he qualified fourth in the wet and started second after grid penalties for both Red Bulls, the youngest driver up to that point to start from the front row. He finished 2017 in 12th place with 40 points. In 2018, partnered by Sergey Sirotkin in a much weaker car, he ended the year 18th with 6 points. He also took part in the 2018 24 Hours of Daytona with Jackie Chan DC Racing.

Racing Point (2019–2020)

In 2019 he moved to Racing Point, the team formed from Force India after its purchase by a consortium led by his father. Sergio Pérez was his teammate for two seasons. Stroll finished 15th in 2019 with 21 points. The 2020 season was his best with the team: second at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza on 6 September, pole position at the Turkish Grand Prix in November, the first by a Canadian since Jacques Villeneuve at the 1997 European Grand Prix, and third at the Sakhir Grand Prix in December. He was 11th in the standings with 75 points. That year his car also overturned at the Bahrain Grand Prix after contact with Daniil Kvyat.

Aston Martin from 2021

In 2021 Racing Point was renamed Aston Martin. With Sebastian Vettel as his teammate, Stroll was 13th in 2021 with 34 points and 15th in 2022 with 18. Fernando Alonso joined in 2023. Before that season, Stroll broke both wrists and a toe in a cycling accident during training. He missed pre-season testing and had screws inserted in his right wrist, yet he started the opening race in Bahrain and finished sixth. His best result that year was fourth in Australia, and his best qualifying was third in São Paulo. He ended 2023 tenth with 74 points, his best championship finish.

2024 to 2025

He finished 13th in 2024 with 24 points. In 2025 he scored 33 points and placed 16th, with sixth in Australia and ninth in China after other drivers were disqualified. That year he withdrew before the Spanish Grand Prix with a hand injury that his medical consultant linked to the 2023 surgery. In September 2025 Aston Martin confirmed that he would stay alongside Alonso in 2026, their fourth consecutive season as teammates.