"I'm relentless," says Aston Martin executive chairman Lawrence Stroll. "I don't give up until the mission is completed. In this case, the mission is being world champions."

Since morphing from Racing Point into Aston Martin in 2021 the Silverstone-based outfit has finished 5th twice in the constructor standings and 7th twice, a far cry - despite Fernando Alonso's bravura efforts in 2023, from Racing Point's third in 2020.

However, Lawrence Stroll insists that Rome wasn't built in a day, and is adamant that the relentless spending that has attracted some of the finest personnel in the business and built one of the sport's most cutting-edge facilities will pay off.

"There's a loyalty behind this 112-year-old British iconic institution, this brand Aston Martin," says the Canadian in an interview with his team's website. "There's a tremendous amount of British pride in this factory. They want to bring their national team to the top step of Formula One.

"There's always been a very high level of intensity in this sport," he continues, "and I provide the right leadership and let these people do their jobs.

"I don't know how to build or engineer a Formula One car as well as the engineers do, so I give them support, give them the tools, give them the people, the finances, give them everything they need in order to not have any roadblocks.

"I'm relentless," he admits. "I don't give up until the mission is completed. In this case, the mission is being world champions.

"I've been fortunate enough and successful in all the ventures I've done," he continues." This is the most passionate I've been, the most heartfelt, which drives me more, excites me more, frustrates me more. When it disappoints, it hurts more, and in this business, there's a lot of disappointment. There's a lot of lows before you get to a lot of highs.

"When I took over this team, about six years ago, I said, 'It'll be a 10-year journey to winning a Formula One World Championship'. You're now witnessing the premises that we've built in order to provide the tools. There's no other factory like this in any other team. There's no wind tunnel like it. There's no other driver simulator like it. And the whole campus has that feeling of winning, of performance, of people striving to find that extra tenth or hundredth of a second.

"Winning is what we're here for," he declares. "Success is measured here by how you perform. For us, the ultimate goal is to be World Champions. Now we need to give it some time for everybody to gel and to work to bring these new exciting rules and regulations that are coming in next year to our level of expectations."

Admitting that this season, which sees his team in a four-way battle for sixth in the standings, has been a disappointment, he says: "You have to filter the highs and the lows and be monotone. You can't get too excited when it's really great, and you can't get too down. There's always next weekend. There are 24 weekends.

"It's a long season. Each weekend is not the end of the world. It's one piece of 24 races over a year. You have to put it all into context, and one year is only one year out of a journey of many years."

It is widely anticipated that 2026 is when Lawrence's true vision for the team will begin to take shape, as the piece of the jigsaw fall into place.

"First was putting together the facilities," he says. "Most important was putting together the team of people. Obviously, getting Adrian Newey to join was monumental. He's been with us since the beginning of March. We have Andy Cowell, Enrico Cardile, plus hundreds of other people.

"We have Honda being our power unit partner, being a works team for the first time in our life is a whole different experience.

"The whole team's forming into place, and we're looking forward next year to a huge rule and regulation change.

"The biggest challenge now is putting everything together, making it all happen. I'm quite confident it will, but you have to have the patience."

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1. Posted by Celtic Tiger, 5 hours ago

"If their '26 challenger is really competitive then the talent will be banging on the door but as its already been mentioned, so long as Stroll jr. is taking up a seat they will be forever hobbled."

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2. Posted by Wokingchap, 21 hours ago

"Until they get 2 new drivers they'll never win a wdc."

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3. Posted by Fambank, 02/11/2025 13:11

"Well, one of your drivers is an also ran, and the other isn't getting any younger, while others preform
to their peaks every single race. Good luck with your 10-year journey."

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