Stroll: 'I should be knighted for what I did'

Canadian billionaire and businessman Lawrence Stroll led a group of wealthy investors down the road to Formula 1 and got Aston Martin on the grid as an F1 team in 2021. The team is doing well and so is the carmaker. The Canadian believes his work has been particularly important.

Stroll thinks he should be knighted for what he has done with British car company Aston Martin in recent years. Five years ago, he and a group of investors bought F1 team Force India and turned it into Racing Point F1. Since 2021, this F1 team changed to Aston Martin when Stroll became CEO of Aston Martin.

Stroll expects to be knighted

As CEO of the carmaker and owner of the Aston Martin F1 team, the Canadian says he has meant a lot to thousands of people. Speaking at a press event, Stroll told Autocar.com and others, "I should be knighted for what I have done. I have saved thousands of jobs and built a new F1 factory with an investment of hundreds of millions.

"The investment is staggering," the Canadian continued. Together with his investor group, he has put one and a half billion pounds into Aston Martin. Stroll: "It's a huge show of my belief in the company. One doesn’t put that money into a business they don’t believe in the future of.” Stroll looks set to revive the ailing Aston Martin in the past, but it is proving difficult to completely cleanse Aston Martin's ambiguous reputation. Stroll believes in the company and insists: "In my other businesses, I’ve won." He expects the same to happen at Aston Martin.