Lance Stroll’s unusual driving during Formula 1’s British Grand Prix weekend raised plenty of eyebrows.<\/p>\n
Clips of Stroll putting on full steering lock exiting the high-speed Copse right-hander and through the subsequent Maggotts-Becketts complex at Silverstone quickly circulated on social media.<\/p>\n
They also didn’t escape the attention of experienced IndyCar driver Conor Daly, who was a guest on the latest episode of The Race F1 Podcast – which you can watch here<\/a> or listen to here<\/a>.<\/p>\n “It’s one of the funniest clips I think I’ve ever seen in a race car,” Daly said.<\/p>\n “The best part is one of the fastest corners, it’s a corner that I remember driving. It’s a great corner, love it.<\/p>\n “But if you have that much rear stability, and you’re able to just turn the thing like that\u2026I think every driver’s had that moment in their lives at one point where you get so frustrated with the understeer that you’ve got or whatever the balance issue that you’ve got is.<\/p>\n “There are many times in my career, certainly in IndyCar, where you do tell your engineer, ‘Hey, when I get to the middle of the corner, I could literally input everything and nothing happens’.<\/p>\n “I guarantee you, you can ask every driver and at some point they’re like, ‘Yeah, I’ve done that just to try it’ because you so desperately want the car to turn. You so desperately want it to do what you want it to do, and it won’t. So you’re like, ‘Look, that’s what it’s doing’.<\/p>\n “I think that is just a compounding of frustration. Obviously, that team is struggling. It’s tough to see because I feel like I expected more out of Aston Martin overall this year, and especially with the people that they’ve got lined up there. The experience of Fernando [Alonso] as well.<\/p>\n “But yeah, that was something that I believe every driver’s done at least once. But because F1 is on the scale that it’s at and every car has a camera and it’s always going and people are always looking at the onboard clips, something like that was definitely going to get out.<\/p>\n “I’m sure Lance was just like, ‘Told you, we need more front grip’. Probably not necessary. Doesn’t help the tyre, but it’s tough to see those guys struggling so much with the balance of the car.”<\/p>\n ‘Hard to watch’<\/p>\n Daly also spoke of how painful it’s been to watch Fernando Alonso wasted at the back of the F1 grid in an uncompetitive Aston Martin-Honda.<\/p>\n “He’s still so good, but he doesn’t get any younger,” said Daly. “It’s got to be tough for him because I believe that – [and] he clearly thinks – he is still able to deliver whenever he is able to compete.<\/p>\n “But I can’t imagine how frustrating [it is] because I have so much respect for Fernando, for all of the racing that he’s done.<\/p>\n “He’s come to the Indy 500. I was lucky enough to get to race against the guy, awesome dude and a great competitor and someone, again, like Max [Verstappen], who just wants to be the best that he can be and do and win and compete.<\/p>\n “I respect that and it’s hard to watch because I’m a Fernando fan. I like Fernando a lot.”<\/p>\n Watch the full episode<\/a> of The Race F1 Podcast to hear Daly’s views on whether British GP winner Charles Leclerc has made a genuine turnaround, what needs to change about F1 safety car finishes, and Max Verstappen’s safety concerns. Or listen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lance Stroll’s unusual driving during Formula 1’s British Grand Prix weekend raised plenty of eyebrows. Clips of Stroll…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-789234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789234","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=789234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}