Lance Stroll’s GT racing return, after not competing in sports cars since 2018, was a difficult one, with his team receiving over eight minutes of penalties.<\/p>\n
The Canadian took part in the opening round of the GT World Challenge Series on Saturday at Circuit Paul Ricard, the former host of the French Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
Stroll was part of the #18 Comtoyou Racing outfit and shared an Aston Martin GT3 Vantage with former Manor F1 driver Roberto Merhi and Aston Martin Academy prospect Mari Boya, who currently competes in F2.<\/p>\n
In qualifying, the trio could only manage P15, with the race then proving far from smooth. Across the six-hour race, which finished at night, the #18 crew were classified in 48th place.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, eight minutes and 25 seconds\u2019 worth of penalties were handed to the team during the event.<\/p>\n
Boya\u2019s involvement in causing a collision resulted in a stop-and-go penalty, while four minutes\u2019 worth of penalties were received for ignoring blue flags. A further three minutes and 40 seconds of penalties were handed to the #18 crew for exceeding track limits.<\/p>\n
Stroll was specifically responsible for one minute of penalties for failing to respect blue flags and 115 seconds\u2019 worth for exceeding track limits.<\/p>\n
Despite all three drivers being responsible for the various rule breaches, Stroll did show very promising lap times among some of the quickest drivers on the grid.<\/p>\n
While Stroll’s team finished in 48th, the #7 Comtoyou Racing outfit secured a late victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lance Stroll’s GT racing return, after not competing in sports cars since 2018, was a difficult one, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-602051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","11":"tag-f1-calendar","12":"tag-f1-live","13":"tag-f1-results","14":"tag-f1-standings","15":"tag-ferrari","16":"tag-formula-1","17":"tag-lewis-hamilton","18":"tag-max-verstappen","19":"tag-motor","20":"tag-motor-sports","21":"tag-motorsport","22":"tag-motosport","23":"tag-motosports","24":"tag-racing","25":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}