(Motorsport-Total.com) – Before the Miami Grand Prix, Formula 1 tried to mitigate the effects of the current regulations with some changes, but Lance Stroll does not have much confidence in the measures: “It is fundamentally flawed,” he says about the current car concept and finds it “sad” the direction in which the sport has developed.
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“I think we are still far from real Formula 1 cars where you push fully at the limit without thinking about batteries and such things,” he criticizes before the season resumes in Miami. “I believe we are miles away from where we should be.”
How Formula 1 should rather be, in his opinion, he was able to see during the break when he followed the Historic Grand Prix of Monaco. “I had some free time during the break and watched old races randomly. I even had the Monaco Historics on TV and heard some Ferrari cars from the early 2000s – how good they sounded and how small and agile they were,” he says.
The onboard footage from the V8 and V10 era was clearly more intense and exciting than today. “It is sad, but hopefully we will move back in that direction,” says Stroll.
Formula 3 cars are more fun
Because currently, Formula 1 is not fun for him. During the break, he drove other cars and tested, among others, a Formula 3 car. “That is a thousand times more fun and better to drive because you have your right foot,” says the Canadian. “You give what you want and get what you want.”
The high weight of the cars and the lack of sound (“without character”) also bother him. He demands: “Just make the cars so that they are fun to drive.”
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“I don’t know what will happen, but hopefully we return in this direction: loud, fast, light, and agile machines that are exciting for the fans and for the drivers as well. Where you really feel that they are driven at the limit.”
However, that is not so simple. The adjustments to the regulations will not be able to fix that. That is more a question for the next generation of cars. “But now we first have to live with this one for the next three to four years,” Stroll laments.
Retirement is not an option
But he denies that he might leave Formula 1 because of this and do something else next year: “No, because I still have great confidence in this project, and I think the project is still far from its potential.”
“I believe this team has a lot of potential, and I want to be part of it and be part of this team when we reach the point that I believe we can reach. If in two or three years I sit on the couch and see two green cars at the front of the field and am not part of it, that would bother me. So I want to be part of it.”
“And hopefully the cars will get better and more fun to drive while that happens – all drivers would wish for that. It’s not just me. Some can say it, some can’t because of their contracts and so on. I really hope these cars get much better over the years and we return to beautiful Formula 1 cars.”
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