Stroll equals Ocon in simulator according to Szafnauer

“We were already impressed with Lance in the simulator. He was in the rhythm very quickly, at Esteban's level. » Otmar Szafnauer, Team Principal of Racing Point, is full of praise for his new recruit Lance stroll, by answering questions from the podcast of the F1.

Logically arriving within the team bought during the season by his father Lawrence, the Canadian seems to have impressed his new team from his first minutes of work, both in the simulator and on the track, during the Pirelli tests in Abu Dhabi, on the heels of the 2018 final on the Yas Marina Circuit.

“We were hoping that the pace he showed in the simulator would carry over to the track, continues Szafnauer. And that was the case, he was also very fast on the track.

So we've got some good potential here with Lance, and we'll work with him to hopefully teach him some of the things that we know about how to use the tire and how to preserve it, how to make it perform quickly and sustainably on the relay. And we're going to... help him qualify better too. »

The FIA ​​European champion F3 2016 is counting on its new team to try to reconnect with the points in 2019... or even better, he who had won a podium in 2017 with Williams, during the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

And thus give Racing Point the possibility of once again competing in the top 4 where the team reached in 2017 with the Pérez tandem – Or with.