Lance Stroll
At the end of the day, you drive your car, and that is what you focus on with yourself and your side of the garage, but of course it is always good to have a good relationship. You never want to have a negative battle or the team splitting up in any way.Collection: Car
I love Greece. It's really cool in the summer.Collection: Cool
Reaching F1 was always the ultimate goal, I suppose, ever since driving a go-kart my father had bought me for my fifth birthday.Collection: Birthday
Motor sport is very expensive. It's unfortunate, because you see so much talent that never makes it to the top due to the lack of financial support.
Everyone has a job to do; that's how I see it.
It's an incredible opportunity to work alongside my father. We have the same ambitions, the same vision.
I have a small entourage of people who I trust. I value their opinion on my career. And I stick to those voices. The rest is just background noise.
I think I've done a fair bit of my talking on the track over the course of the years, leading up to Formula One and Formula One.
Whether my team-mate is someone with 15 years' experience or someone of one year's experience, my approach doesn't change.
I won Formula Four. I went to New Zealand and won the Toyota Racing Series. I won the F3 European championship in 2016.
Money can't buy wins.
I love racing.
I never really looked at Formula One like that was the long-term goal. I obviously dreamed, and my aspirations were to get to Formula One, but I really started thinking about it in Formula 3 at 16, 17 years old, and I saw that it was right in front of me.
I won championships and races and earned my super-licence to get to Formula One. Of course, I was very fortunate to be in the position I was in, but at the same time, I delivered.
The haters will always hate.
There will always be jealous people and haters: people who assume that if they were in your shoes, they could do what you're doing. That's just the world we live in.
I have had this opportunity to go on a journey and experience the ride of racing cars, of different championships around the world, go-karts, F3, F4, and now F1. It's been so amazing to be able to experience that. There have been bad days, good days, and it's been a great ride.
I think if you don't touch the wall in Monaco, you're not on the limit.
I won F4, and I won F3 - F3 by, I believe, the biggest margin in history and as one of the youngest drivers in history. I'm just pointing out facts. I'm not bragging or anything.
All I can do is my talking on the track, and I believe that when they look at the facts, people can judge for themselves if it's good or bad.
I have my little entourage of who I travel with, some friends and people who help me more technically on the track. Obviously, my engineers who I work closely with, we are all in the ship together.
I'm showing people what I'm made of, and if people don't want to accept that and face the facts, I can't help that.
Around 16 years old, when I was in Formula 3 and looking at potential options for the future, that's when I realized that Formula One was in the picture. But to be honest, I really just took it year by year throughout my karting years and stuff.
F1 is a team sport, not an individual sport.
I've been very fortunate to have had good financial support.
When opportunities arise, you have to seize them.
I think the right way to work is by focusing on each task at hand and then move forward.
I think Formula One is - there's a lot of differences from track to track, grip levels, tyre compound, so you always have to press the reset button and work from scratch again.
I know the Paul Ricard track from when I drove in Formula 3.
The facts prove I deserve to be where I am, and no one can take that away from me, regardless of where I come from.
Don't get me wrong: I've had a lot of fortune, to come where I've come from, to be able to move to Europe, to go racing. But I had that fortune behind me. I grabbed it with both hands, and I made the best of it.
The lows have been frustrating, and very challenging times, but the highs have been phenomenal.
I'll work on my weaknesses and build on my strengths.
The Caribbean is great, but I also love the mountains as well. I'm a big skier, and I love spending time in Switzerland skiing. It really depends.
I like the beach in the summer and the mountains in the winter.
I was always good at gym! Gym classes were good, but school really wasn't my thing, but I did it, got through it. It's definitely important.
As a driver, you have to accept that some years are more challenging than others. That's part of the game.
I've learned a tremendous amount. I've gained a lot of experience competing at the highest level with the best drivers in the world in F1.
I've really just had to learn and adapt more than ever before, because there's so much to do in F1. There's so much to be on top of as a driver. It really requires perfection just to walk out of a weekend with a decent result.
My job remains the same, regardless of who is on the other side of the garage.
In F1, we see teams spending ridiculous amounts of money. That's the sport.
A podium is always possible if you are in the right place at the right time.
If the car is capable of finishing eighth, then I want to get the most out of the car and put it eighth. If the car is only capable of finishing 13th to start the year, then that has to be our goal.
I think it is really important to have two drivers who want to push the team in the right direction rather than fighting against one another.
Obviously, it is good to have competitiveness in the team and that urge to want to beat the driver next to you, but at the same time, I think we are gonna respect each other.
I stay in my little bubble - that is what I try and do. There is always noise out there and distractions, but you just have to block all that noise out.
The crucial thing for me is that I stick to my job.
I believe I have earned my shot in F1. I have won F3, and we all know F3 is a very high level.
I come from a background that, when I win, people try to put me down, and when I lose, people try to put me down. I accept that, and I actually find it kind of funny.
You always want someone pushing you all the time who is competitive and at the top of their game so you can become a better driver.