Racing Point to unveil new car to be driven by Stroll at Toronto auto show
MONTREAL — Lance Stroll’s new Formula 1 car will be unveiled in February at the Canadian International Auto Show in Toronto.
The Racing Point team, formally known as Force India, was bought last August by a group of businessmen led by the Canadian driver’s father, Quebec billionaire Lawrence Stroll.
His 20-year-old son announced last month that he was joining the team after spending his first two seasons in F1 with Williams. The presentation of the team’s 2019 car on Feb. 13 will come five days before the beginning of winter testing in Barcelona.
In the podcast “Beyond the Grid,” Racing Point team principal Otmar Szafnauer said the young driver “absolutely loved his time in the car” during recent testing in Abu Dhabi. Stroll “said the car could do the things that he wants a car to do,” Szafnauer said.