Ralf Schumacher believes it’s time for Lance Stroll to depart F1.
Stroll completed sixteenth within the 2025 World Championship with 33 factors, whereas teammate Fernando Alonso scored 56 factors, leaving Aston Martin languishing in seventh place within the constructors’ standings.
2025 might be Stroll’s ninth season in F1 and his seventh with Aston Martin, which he joined below the Racing Level identify when his billionaire father Lawrence Stroll took over the Silverstone-based staff.
Since then, Stroll has not completed larger than tenth within the drivers’ championship, with solely two podium finishes and one pole place.
The 27-year-old Canadian might be carefully watched for his efficiency alongside the 44-year-old two-time world champion Alonso.
And former F1 driver and Sky Germany pundit Schumacher feels Stroll’s time within the sport is over.
“Strictly talking, that’s not acceptable. To be sincere, when you take a look at how properly the F2 winner[Leonardo Fornaroli]carried out, he deserves to be in a automotive like {that a} thousand occasions extra,” Schumacher mentioned on the Sky Sports activities Germany podcast.
“However I am additionally enthusiastic about what occurs there, as a result of to be sincere, not even Lawrence Stroll (…) can flip a blind eye to this subject. For my part, he is additionally a candidate who actually should not be in F1 anymore, undoubtedly.”
Stroll is below contract with Aston Martin till the tip of 2026, however his contract is on a rolling foundation.
Aston Martin is trying to make use of subsequent 12 months’s regulation modifications to maneuver up the standings, with the goal of realizing Stroll’s lofty ambitions of turning into a world championship contender within the coming years.
Adrian Newey will design Aston Martin’s 2026 automotive and turn out to be the staff’s new staff principal subsequent season, aiming to alter the staff’s fortunes.
Aston Martin will even turn out to be Honda’s works F1 staff in 2026 by means of an unique engine partnership.
