Why Stroll will do whatever it takes to make Aston Martin champions

By:

Jonathan Noble

Jul 13, 2021, 9:01 PM

Lawrence Stroll is a man who likes getting what he wants. And, right now, what he wants above all else is to turn his Aston Martin Formula 1 team into winners and world champions.

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While those ambitions are not much different to those countless other team owners before him have had as they began their journey in the sport, few have ever levelled up resources and quite gone on the attack like Stroll is right now.

For his team that ruffled some feathers last year with its ‘Pink Mercedes’ concept has upped the ante in going on a huge recruitment drive to poach staff from rivals, and it hasn’t been afraid to shout out at what it felt were unfair rule changes that hurt the low rake cars for this season.

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Jonathan Noble is Motorsport.com’s Formula 1 editor. Having graduated from University of Sussex Jonathan worked for sports news agency Collings Sports reporting on F1, F3, touring cars and other sports, with articles appearing in The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Reuters, Autosport and other publications. In 1999 he moved to Haymarket Publishing to become a senior editor at Autosport Special Projects, and one year later he became Autosport’s grand prix editor. In 2015 he moved to Motorsport Network, becoming the F1 editor for Motorsport.com. He is also a member of the Guild of Motoring Writers, and sits on the FIA Media Council.

Jonathan has won multiple awards for journalism - in 1991 he was the winner of the Guild of Motoring Writers’ Sir William Lyons’ Award for young journalists, in 2010 he was awarded the Outstanding Individual accolade for consumer journalism in the Haymarket wards, in 2011 he won Haymarket’s Scoop of the Year, and in 2018 he was awarded a prestigious Medaglia d’Oro at the Lorenzo Bandini Awards for his contribution to F1 journalism.