Lance Stroll acknowledged he needs to cut his lap time deficit to team mate Fernando Alonso in their second season as team mates.
Alonso was comfortably the highest scorer of the two Aston Martin drivers last year, single-handled scoring almost three-quarters of the teams’ points.
Stroll qualified three-tenths of a second or more slower than Alonso at 13 of last year’s 22 grands prix. Speaking at the launch of the team’s new car Stroll, told media including RaceFans he has ideas how to find “some speed” compared to his team mate this year.
“Last year, for sure, he was just quicker,” said Stroll. “I have some ideas on where to work on, some things that I want to improve on in that regard.”
However Stroll feels fortune was not always on his side last year. “I don’t like to use the word ‘luck’, but I think we had a lot of misfortune last year,” he continued, “and I think that made things more challenging.
“When we were fighting for good positions, last year, there were a lot of races where we had technical issues. We had things that just didn’t go our way. So we want to just build on last year.”
Stroll’s start to the 2023 campaign was compromised when he broke his wrists in a pre-season cycling accident. Although he recovered in time to start the first race of the year, he took longer to recover fully and feels he can “come back physically a little bit stronger” again this year. “Some of the races where I felt physically I could have been stronger,” he said.
“Every year I think is a new year so going into this year I’ll learn, I’ll evolve, I’ll think about what I can do better, how I can be better,” he continued. “But then also just take on the year and see what happens.
“Every year is a very different year in Formula 1. It depends a lot on where the car’s at, it depends a lot on many factors. But I would like to see us definitely fight for some big results this year, score a lot of points, fight for podiums and a first win in green would be nice.”
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