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Originally Posted by The Producer
yes. his dad owned those teams too but yes. there's absolutely no way you can get anywhere near an F1 car without decades of training. Lance is one of the best drivers in the world. Let's make up numbers - top 1000 in the world? top 500 maybe?
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Anyone who gets to drive an F1 car at an F1 event is a pretty serious, immensely talented driver so while Lance might be bottom 5 of active F1 drivers he's still probably a top 100 driver in the world (15 from F1, 15-25 from Indycar, 20-30 from Sports cars, 30 from NASCAR, etc)
It's like the story of NBA bench warmer, Brian Scalabrine, who did the "Scallenge" where he played former college players and other rec leaguers and destroyed them (
https://www.basketballnetwork.net/ol...-the-scallenge). Brian was a bum in the NBA like Stroll but he was no bum when it came to basketball in general.
For the record, Stroll did not have "decades" of training for F1 - he only had raced karts/cars for 9 years before hitting F1 but point taken. It takes years of development (and success) to even be in the convo for F1.
Stroll, Latifi, and Sargent have nothing to be ashamed of if they can't cut it in F1. If they wanted to they can still make millions racing in Indycar or in Sportscars and they'd probably win tonnes of races.