Lance Stroll beaches himself in the gravel in the 2024 Sao Paulo GP
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F1 News: Lance Stroll’s performance in Sao Paulo was embarrassing

Posted by AR1 staff

Lance Stroll has the audacity to blame his brakes for his horrendous performance in the São Paulo Brazilian GP.

–by Mark Cipolloni–

The only reason why he is an F1 driver in the first place is because his billionaire daddy bought an entire F1 team just so he can race in F1.

Stroll’s Brazilian Blunders

  1. Crashing in Q2 qualifying, ruining Max Verstappen’s fast lap
  2. Spinning out in the formation lap of the race in Turn 4. After spending hours on repairs from his qualifying crash, his mechanics were rewarded with an AMR24 into the barriers before the race even started!
  3. Driving straight into the gravel trap as he attempted to re-join and getting stuck instead of driving away from his spin on the tarmac right in front of his face. His stupidity caused an aborted race start.

Stroll has only scored 24 points this season to his teammate Fernando Alonso’s 62 and that’s a Fernando Alonso in his 40s and way past his prime.

Speaking post-race, Stroll blamed his spin on his brakes when it his obvious his tires were cold, and he was going too fast for the conditions.

“It was a really strange one. It felt like a brake failure,” he explained.

“Because as soon as I touched the brakes it locked the rear axle, and I was a passenger.

“I was stuck in the gravel and my race was done. It is such a shame, because in a wet race like today anything can be possible.

“But we were not able to take those opportunities.”

Stroll’s performance on the racetrack is not helping Aston Martin make money selling cars.

Last week the British carmaker revealed a third-quarter loss of $13.4 million before taxes. While that beat estimates, the persistent losses mean that Aston has burned through $509 million this year, or over $1.8 million per day.

Delivery numbers released on September 30 revealed a decrease in sales by 17 percent year-to-date, from 4,398 cars to 3,639 units in the same nine-month period.

This newest set of numbers means Aston has given up on being cashflow break-even by the end of the year, according to The Times. Even worse, it’s taken on a large amount of debt, having increased its net borrowings by nearly 50 percent, to £1.21 billion ($1.57 billion). That’s about 40 percent higher than the entire value of the company, says The Times.