Lance Stroll what happened?

Lance Stroll, I feel like his not been spoke about much recently? Has he had just a quiet season and working behind the scenes to focus on this years car or has he just struggled? Lets take a look into his season…

Overall his season is okay, obviously not the best but not the worst either… 9 times he got in the points, making him finish 13th out of all 20 drivers on 34 points, his new team-mate Vettel was in 12th and scored 43 points. Stroll had 3 DNF’s across the season, one being the tyre blow out in Azerbaijian, and then the Hungarian race and the last one being Brazil where he had lasting damage from contact with Tsunoda.

His qualifying is where you can see the inconsistency, reaching Q3 six times and then its just a mixture from 12th to 20th… I don’t know if he felt like he had a better race car than one lap pace but it just looks like he has struggled so much compared to last year where he scored in 10 out of 17 races, and where he finished 11th in the drivers standings on 75 points.

Below, is a table of Lances’ qualifying position compared to his race position:

Grand Prix		Qualifying position	Race position
Bahrain		10th	10th
Emilia Romagna		10th	8th
Portugal		17th	14th
Spain		11th	11th
Monaco		13th	8th
Azerbaijan		DNF	DNF
France		NC	10th
Styria		10th	8th
Austria		10th	13th
Great Britain		15th	8th
Hungary		12th	DNF
Belgium		15th	20th
Netherlands		12th	12th
Italy		12th	7th
Russia		8th	11th
Turkey		9th	9th
United States		16th	12th
Mexico		20th	14th
Brazil		15th	DNF
Qatar		12th	6th
Saudi Arabia		18th	11th
Abu Dhabi		13th	13th

Obviously, I know the car has changed, but can it really change that much? Considering his team-mate got two podiums in his first year with the British team (one being DSQ) but it seemed like he pushed the car more than Stroll did?

But saying this, with things changing this year could we potentially see a Lance Stroll who is continuously making Q3 appearances or scoring points almost every race? If this does happen then I can’t wait to see it!