Aston Martin chief hails the ‘tremendous’ Fernando Alonso trait that he has seen from Lance Stroll

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Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll have been one of the most evenly-matched driver pairings so far in the 2025 F1 season, having scored Aston Martin 37 and 32 points.

Only McLaren’s Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri and Haas’ Oliver Bearman and Esteban Ocon have been more evenly-matched in terms of points this year than Alonso and Stroll. Just one point splits the McLaren duo with 357 and 356, while two split the Haas pair with 32 and 30.

Alonso and Stroll’s combined efforts also place Aston Martin seventh in the F1 constructors’ championship entering the final four rounds of 2025. The Silverstone team trail Racing Bulls by three points, while Haas sit 10 shy of the Faenza natives after 20 of this term’s 24 rounds.

Stroll was Aston Martin’s lead driver through the first 17 rounds of the 2025 F1 season, with Alonso only eclipsing the Canadian’s tally following the Spaniard’s P7 in the Singapore Grand Prix. Alonso has now finished in front of Stroll in 11 of the 19 Grands Prix they both started.

Andy Cowell thinks Lance Stroll’s data matches Fernando Alonso’s ‘tremendous’ input

Qualifying has been Stroll’s major weakness, with Alonso enjoying a 20-0 whitewash in their 2025 F1 driver head-to-head, and also 3-1 for Sprint events. Only Red Bull’s Max Verstappen is also unbeaten in his 2025 qualifying head-to-heads with Liam Lawson and Yuki Tsunoda.

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But Aston Martin F1 CEO and team principal Andy Cowell believes Stroll and Alonso are “the same” in terms of the data they offer. Stroll has started 185 of the 189 Grands Prix he has to date entered since debuting in 2017. Alonso has 421 starts from 424 race entries since 2001.

Cowell said, via quotes by Mundo Deportivo: “With Fernando, his immediate feedback, the way he picks up on certain things, he talks in great detail about what he feels in the car. The amount of data he provides is simply tremendous. Lance is the same.”

Lance Stroll is enjoying his most evenly matched season with Fernando Alonso at Aston Martin

Stroll’s early results this year with P6 in Australia and P9 in China in the opening two Grands Prix ultimately springboarded what has been his closest season in comparison to Alonso for Aston Martin to date. Stroll also scored P7 finishes in Britain, Hungary and the Netherlands.

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The 27-year-old has only registered top-10 finishes in those five aforementioned Grands Prix in 2025, plus points with P5 in the Miami Sprint. Alonso has taken points in eight Grands Prix with a best finish of P5 in the Hungarian GP, where he also qualified P5 and Stroll banked P6.

It is the most evenly matched that Stroll has so far been with two-time F1 champion Alonso since the latter joined Aston Martin in 2023. Alonso scored 206 points and eight podiums in 2023 plus 70 points in 2024, while Stroll scored 74 points in 2023 and just 24 through 2024.

Alonso is not the only former F1 champion whom Stroll has reminded a senior Aston Martin chief about with his efforts on and off track this season. Chief technical officer Enrico Cardile has likened Stroll to Kimi Raikkonen, as he talks less than Alonso in Aston Martin’s meetings.