P1racenews AI automatic summary:
Lance Stroll suffered a poor weekend in Sao Paulo – posting a DNS after spinning on the formation lap.
In the São Paulo Grand Prix, Lance Stroll missed the chance to break Jacques Villeneuve’s all-time F1 record due to a spin on the formation lap. Stroll’s rear locking on the brakes at Turn 4 caused him to spin off and hit a barrier with the front wing of his Aston Martin. This incident led to him getting stuck in a gravel trap, resulting in his third non-start out of 166 entries. If Stroll had started as planned for the 164th time, he would have exceeded Villeneuve’s record for most starts by a Canadian F1 driver. However, Stroll currently shares the same number of starts, 163, with Villeneuve. The next most experienced Canadian driver after Stroll and Villeneuve is Gilles Villeneuve, who started 67 times before his tragic death during a qualifying session in 1982. Stroll’s other two Did Not Starts (DNS) occurred in the 2020 Eifel Grand Prix due to a positive COVID-19 test and in the 2023 Singapore GP following a major qualifying accident.
