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Publication date: October 11, 2020
Lance Stroll shouldn’t turn to Jacques Villeneuve for a sympathetic shoulder amid his illness, as the 1997 champion believes his compatriot should compete no matter what.
And the fact that he is not, means that he “does not have the absolute will” to succeed in Formula 1.
Stroll will not be participating in the Eifel Grand Prix this weekend and his seat at Racing Point will go to Nico Hulkenberg.
The Canadian withdrew from the race weekend due to illness.
While it was initially thought that the driver might have Covid-19, Racing Point team boss Otmar Szafnauer says Stroll tested negative.
He added: “He does not have the classic symptoms of COVID-19. You just don’t feel good about yourself.
“He has a bit of an upset stomach. So he was in the bathroom the whole time. And he said, ‘I just got rid of a lot of fluid and I can’t get out of the toilet long enough to get into a race car.’
“So I don’t know if it’s something he ate or if it’s a belly virus. He just said ‘I don’t feel like it.’
Villeneuve feels that’s a bad reason not to race.
The 1997 World Champion says an upset stomach should never keep a driver out of the car, at least one who is determined to get to the top of Formula 1.
“Even if he has a stomach ache or hasn’t eaten for a week, he’s still going to race,” RacingNews365 says the Canadian told Sky Italia.
“If you really want to succeed in Formula 1, you will always race and you will not give up.
“So either Lance is really in a lot of pain and pain, which means he has something wrong, or he just doesn’t have the absolute will to pull it off.”
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It is not the first time that Villeneuve has criticized his compatriot and has taken offense at Stroll’s paid driver status.
He criticized that in 2017, saying that Stroll’s rookie season was one of the “worst rookie performances in Formula 1 history”, while a year later he urged Williams test driver Robert Kubica to deliberately sabotage. to Stroll.
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