Lance Stroll praises his new racing engineer

      In Melbourne, at the first stage of the season, Lance Stroll took a decent 6th place – the Canadian Aston Martin racer managed to avoid mistakes that many rivals, including his teammate, Fernando Alonso, fell victim to, and the team acted correctly by choosing tactics.

      Before the start of the Shanghai race weekend, Lance refrained from making predictions, only emphasizing that the team has something to work on, and also praised Gary Gannon, his new racing engineer, who previously worked with Haas F1 for a long time.

      Lance Stroll: "It's great to start the season with such a result and earn a lot of points – of course, it lifts the mood. We'll see how we look this weekend, but after one race it's too early to talk about the balance of power and how competitive we are compared to our rivals.

      Now we have to race on a track that has different characteristics, but we will be able to learn more in the process. There is a very intense rivalry in the middle group of teams, but part of the picture will change from track to track.

      If we talk about the AMR25 car, there are many aspects that we need to keep working on, because we couldn't say that we were really competitive in Australia all weekend. In the end, we showed a good result, but we know that we have a lot to improve. In general, we must try to gradually increase the speed of the car.

      The Australian weekend was the first time I worked with my new race engineer, and Gary helped me very well, so thanks to his support, we did a good job. We've been working together all weekend, trying to improve the car, find the best settings, and it's been a good start."