F1: Stroll set for Williams development role
Formula 3 driver Lance Stroll is poised to take up a driver development role with the Williams Formula 1 team.
Sources have confirmed the 17-year-old Canadian and advisor Luca Baldisserri have been in discussions with Williams about taking up a position with the Grove, UK-based team. Stroll is currently part of the Ferrari Young Driver Academy program, run and managed by Baldisserri, who was previously chief track engineer with the Scuderia. However, the recent retirement of Susie Wolff has created space on the Williams team's driver roster.
In his first year of car racing, Stroll won the Italian Formula 4 title in 2014 before moving up with Prema Powerteam to the Formula 3 European Championship this year. After some controversial mid-season accidents, he finished the year strongly with six podiums in the final 11 races, including a victory in the first race of the final round at Hockenheim.
Stroll, who will remain with Prema in F3 in 2016, is backed by his retail billionaire father Lawrence, who was last year linked with a potential buy-in to Sauber, which ultimately came to nothing.
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