Lance Stroll used to see Fernando Alonso as the 'bad guy' but will now be sharing the garage with him. F1
There is quite a large age difference – Stroll is still one of the youngest drivers on the grid, with Alonso the eldest at 41 years old.
Having spent his childhood watching Alonso go toe to toe with his hero, Stroll laughed at the prospect that he will be team-mates with the ‘bad guy’ from that time. “I watched [Fernando] on TV in 2004, 2005, 2006 – when he won his titles and was fighting against [Michael] Schumacher,” Stroll told“I was a fan of Schumacher. [Alonso] was the bad guy in my eyes! I was six years old and he was the bad guy, like in the movies. But he was always super-exciting to watch. And he still is. He’s one of the best drivers. He’s still very lively at around 42 years old .
This meant that as a junior karter and in the lower rungs of formula racing, Stroll had the chance to meet Alonso – the first time being when he was just 11 years old.“I was probably rather flabbergasted by the experience.” With the knowledge of them being team-mates in 2023, Stroll remarked he may have given Alonso the heads-up: “It’s possible that I warned him, yes!”
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