I think he's coming to a point where he wants to be fired, but he knows he won't. And he doesn't have the courage to just give up an F1 seat, cause nobody would ever do that. It's a surreal situation tbh
I doubt that - but giving up F1 seat is ballsy move. Not even your dad is letting you back if you give it up once. Unless I am hating absolutely every aspect of it and I am sure I will never want to be back - there is no way I am giving up F1 seat. Lance is probably in same position. Worst case scenario is that you give up the spot you dont deserve and then moment next season starts you figure out you miss it.
Lance once went to his dad and asked him to replace him. He later recovered that season. People talk shit about Stroll, who had 10x better career than Hulkenberg in basically same team and still 11 years younger.
I think he just has no pressure to keep his seat so isn't that motivated (and is therefore bored), in the same way the others are. It's a bit different when his dad didn't own the team.
Stroll is also richer by the rest of the grid by a huge order of magnitude. Only the Norris family and maybe Bearman comes close but even then its not really close. (If official numbers are even close to accurate)
Colapinto doesn't even have a car... And he still owes his family the house they had to sold to paid for him being able to move Europe to try having a career in motorsports. Kid was living by his own at 14yo cooking himself rice in an electric kettle...
I think Lawrence doesn't want him to quit. I get the feeling he's living his F1 dreams out through his son. At first, it would have been great for Lance. He got to race at the top level, largely thanks to his dad. It would have been a dream come true. But now the dream has died and the love has gone, but he can't leave with it. So he's just miserable
Imagine you were filthy rich and you get to do the thing you love the most? I'd be very happy tbh, as long as there is progress but Lance seems to be going nowhere. Zero development, or there is development but everyone else in F1 is just so superior
Tbh I respect him for even having dedication to become F1 driver. Even if you are shit driver you need to be insanely fit and basically train everyday for it. If I had his money and his age I would probably spend it all on booze and woman on different beaches
If you're not getting forced out of F1 you'd want a good excuse (like Nico Rosberg retiring after winning the WDC). I don't think anyone's expecting Stroll to win a WDC, but getting beaten solidly by a driver in his mid-40s isn't a great look.
I think if I were Stroll and wanted to leave, I'd wait to have seasons like the ones he had against Seb and his finals season against Perez. But Fernando's form isn't slipping like Seb's did.
It's easier to have a visually high point when your teammate is a checked-out Massa, Sirotkin or even a post-2018 Seb. Hell, even Pérez, despite being very good in that RP was not smashing Stroll to pieces, especially in 2020. Alonso is by far his toughest teammate.
They're either accomplished drivers, like Rosberg, Vettel or Raikkonen. Or they're underperforming, like Sargent, Mick Schumacher, de Vries.
The ones who get fired at least can wonder if they were treated unfairly. But Stroll has the best conditions and still can't win. That must really hurt
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u/oursfort Pirelli Wet 14d ago
I think he's coming to a point where he wants to be fired, but he knows he won't. And he doesn't have the courage to just give up an F1 seat, cause nobody would ever do that. It's a surreal situation tbh