{"id":18388,"date":"2023-06-25T15:01:25","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T09:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=326977"},"modified":"2023-06-25T15:01:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T09:31:25","slug":"lance-actually-looking-worse-against-alonso-says-f1-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/formula-1\/lance-actually-looking-worse-against-alonso-says-f1-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLance actually looking worse against Alonso,\u201d says F1 journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lance Stroll\u2019s performance as Fernando Alonso\u2019s teammate has been difficult, with a significant point gap of 80 points and only a third of Alonso\u2019s total points after eight races.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation about Stroll\u2019s future intensified when rumors circulated about a potential replacement, Felipe Drugovich. While Stroll currently has the support of his father, F1 commentator Peter Windsor expressed disappointment with Stroll\u2019s results and how they reflect on Sebastian Vettel, the former Aston Martin team leader.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence Stroll, with ambitions of winning titles for Silverstone, recognizes the importance of a capable second driver but dismissed the idea of replacing his son mid-season. With four races left before the summer break, Stroll aims to gather momentum and improve his performance.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHe\u2019s actually looking worse against Alonso than anyone he\u2019s ever had next to him, isn\u2019t he?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhich says a lot about Fernando and doesn\u2019t say much about Sebastian Vettel actually.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With Lawrence Stroll keen on delivering titles to Silverstone over the coming years, having a capable second driver is going to be crucial for the team in the long run.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the possibility of Lawrence replacing his son midway through the season, he said;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I don\u2019t think that will happen. The whole reason that Lawrence Stroll is in Formula 1 and bought that team and created that whole thing is in order to give his son Lance a drive,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not sure Lance would have got to drive anywhere else, so end of story really.\u201d (youtube)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lance Stroll\u2019s performance as Fernando Alonso\u2019s teammate has been difficult, with a significant point gap of 80 points and only\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":39123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3682,943,2489,2505],"class_list":["post-18388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula-1","tag-alonso","tag-f1","tag-lance-stroll","tag-sebastian-vettel"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}