Lance Stroll was hampered at the F1 Grand Prix in Las Vegas by a familiar problem that required an old-fashioned solution. The Aston Martin driver's team-side radio did not work for the entire race.
Aston Martin and Stroll were forced to react as best they could when it appeared that its communication tool was not working, and particularly feared a Safety Car period at the start of the race, as his teammate Fernando Alonso, who started on soft tires , had great hopes on his side!
“Lance didn’t have a radio the whole race”said Ted Kravitz, pit reporter for Sky Sports F1. “It's a bit of a problem when you know he started at the bottom of the grid and needed to come back up. They had to communicate with Lance the old fashioned way, with a sign on the pit wall, to tell him when to come in and change the different buttons they wanted him to change. »
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Fernando Alonso qualified in 17th position and Stroll was at the back of the grid. The Spaniard managed to move up to thirteenth at the end of his first stint, before putting on a set of hard tires and making one last stop. He ultimately did not manage to rank P10 and thus obtain the last point at stake, having collided with the Red Bull of Sergio Pérez, who also made a comeback. Alonso missed six seconds to get into the points.
Stroll, for his part, therefore completed race 15ewithout radio. At the end of the season, the stakes are low for Aston Martin, sitting in fifth position in the world championship, a world behind the top four teams and comfortably ahead of the Haas/Alpine/VCARB trio.
