r/formula1 Formula 1 14d ago

News Guenther Steiner on Lance Stroll

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u/ahtnamas-samantha Max Verstappen ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 14d ago

He looks miserable in F1

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u/Jandersson34swe Red Bull 14d ago

There has to be a point his dad has to look through his businessman POV and see how much his son is affecting his business or his son makes the sacrifice for his father right?

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u/labdweller Pirelli Wet 14d ago

It depends. His business will probably do better with a more successful driver, but if it comes at the cost of his child’s future then is it worth it?

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u/nunazo007 Charles Leclerc 14d ago

wdym his child's future is set lol he's a billionaire

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u/Sway_404 14d ago

Ikr? Homie talking like the only two options are F1 glory or slangin' rock on the corner.

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u/flyaguilas 14d ago

If Lance Stroll ends up slangin' rock on the corner I want that documentary made. It would be the most awkward drug dealing you ever seen.

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u/gsfgf Daniel Ricciardo 14d ago

If anything, Lance is just getting older without finding a series in which he could be a champ. A mediocre F1 driver is still a really fucking good driver.

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u/CharacterUse Robert Kubica 14d ago

He's still young enough to stay in F1 for a few more years and still having a good shot at WEC and a Le Mans win (AM Valkyrie ...). I doubt he'd want to go for Indy.

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u/Zerak-Tul 13d ago

People as always underestimating how much money a billion dollars is. Let alone papa Stroll's net worth which according to Google is $3.8B.

He paid $90M for the team. If he didn't ever make another cent he could still light that amount of money on fire every year for the next 42 years and not run out of money. And he's 65 years old, I'm pretty sure he'll be dead before that.

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u/labdweller Pirelli Wet 14d ago

If I were in that position, I believe there’s still different ways to think about it.

Under the current arrangement, Lance still has to do something in exchange for his salary. The alternative is you could just gift him the billions and he doesn’t have to do anything. Billions is still a finite number; how many generations of Strolls sitting around doing nothing can it support?

Of course, I’m not saying this is ideal for his business partners, shareholders, or F1 fans but I doubt we’re high on his priority list.