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Stroll claps back after Aston Martin replacement claims: "Short-minded opinions"
"If you have two good races, you're the best driver in the world. And if you have two bad ones, you're not good enough and you shouldn't be here anymore, and you're shit," says Stroll
Lydia Mee Ronald Vording
Edited: Jun 26, 2025, 4:43 PM
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Lance Stroll has responded to claims that he should be replaced at Aston Martin after not scoring points since the Miami sprint race.
Stroll had a relatively strong start to the season, bagging eight points during the opening race in Australia and two points in the Chinese Grand Prix. However, he has failed to score points in any Grand Prix since then. The Canadian driver also missed the Spanish Grand Prix due to his wrist injury resurfacing.
Timo Glock claimed on Sky Deutschland during the Canadian Grand Prix weekend that the Silverstone-based squad should drop the 26-year-old.
“Sporting-wise, he’s definitely not where he needs to be after his long time in Formula 1," Glock argued. "He has had relatively clear defeats and hasn’t been able to convince with consistency this year, either.
“There’s always a weekend where he seems to be catching up with Fernando Alonso. But over the course of a whole year, he’s simply too far behind [and] too inconsistent. He then makes the mistakes accordingly.
“In the current situation, you would have to reposition yourself to be successful.”
Stroll responded to the claims, telling Motorsport.com and other media in Austria, "I think Formula 1 is a business with very short-minded opinions and if you have two good races, you're the best driver in the world. And if you have two bad ones, you're not good enough and you shouldn't be here anymore, and you're shit. So I think that's the business.
Lance Stroll, Aston Martin Racing
Photo by: Zak Mauger / Motorsport Images
"That's how it's always been. It's how it always will be. I think when you have a crap day, you don't enjoy having a crap day. When you have a good day, you enjoy having a good day. So I think that's also just how it is, you know."
Stroll revealed a fairly laid-back approach to this, explaining that he keeps his circle small and just focuses on what he's doing and can control.
"I think it is what it is. I mean, no, I like to kind of just focus on what I'm doing and the people around me, my engineer, my team that know what's going on and know the reasons behind what happened every weekend, and how it could have been better, why it was a bit worse or whatever. I like to kind of keep that circle small and focus my energy on that."
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