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Stroll: I'm more of a complete driver

Stroll: "I'm more of a complete driver"

27-12-2018 08:12

Bevan Youl

Lance Stroll has said that he believes he is “more of a complete driver” after a 2018 season of struggles in the Williams.

Stroll moved up to Formula 1 after winning the FIA Formula 3 European Championship, leap-frogging the F2 Championship.

In his rookie season in 2017 he had some good performances scoring a podium in Baku and qualifying fourth and starting second in Monza. But this year has been a big contrast as the team only managed to score seven points in total.

Stroll said: “I don’t think it’s really fair to compare the two [or] judge the year in general. It’s [2018] been a fire-fighting season,” (planetf1.com).

“We picked up very few points but the few times that I picked up points were big highlights because we beat quicker cars around us.”

“Same thing in qualifying: I scraped into Q2, got into Q3 in Monza, they’ve really been big achievements because it’s the performance has been really poor.”

The Canadian believes that all of the struggles this year and the difficulties with the car have helped him improve more as a driver and have a better understanding of Formula 1.

“All in all I do believe I’m a more complete driver today than I was a year ago, but I think that I just haven’t been able to demonstrate that due to the package.”

“I’ve learned so much with another season under my belt of Formula 1, time with the engineers, expanding my knowledge of Formula 1, the tyres, racing, qualifying."

“I just turned 20 years old and I still believe I’m very far from reaching my full potential. Every year I try to keep chipping away at it."

Stroll will be driving alongside Sergio Perez for Racing Point F1 next year after his father led a consortium to buy the team.