Stroll enters history (through the wrong door): in Monza he reaches 100 eliminations in Q1

Triple figure for the Canadian

On an engine track like Monza, the Honda power unit had no chance and so it was. Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll were the slowest by a considerable margin compared to the Cadillacs.

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For Lance Stroll, this is the hundredth elimination in Q1 in his career, obviously an unfortunate milestone for a driver who has already shown he can deliver flashes of class as happened right at Monza in the 2017 Qualifying downpour when Stroll took Williams to the front row alongside Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes.

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The road to competitiveness is still very long for the Honda power unit, which at Monza found confirmation that the quality leap of the ‘spec-2’ introduced at Zandvoort is not even remotely sufficient to compete with rivals on tracks where the engine almost exclusively counts.

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