Lance battles it out in Abu Dhabi finale

Aston Martin Aramco Formula One® Team driver, Lance Stroll, finished P14 at the 2024 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, where he’d previously finished P10 in 2023.  

Watching on in FP1

Sitting out FP1, Lance enabled Aston Martin Aramco Formula One® Team Test & Reserve Driver Felipe Drugovich to take the reins of his AMR24.  

WATCH: 2024 ABU DHABI FP1 HIGHLIGHTS  

Gathering data in FP2  

The team tried different things on Lance’s AMR24 during FP2 to find the right setup for the remainder of the weekend.  

Lance gathered data on both the Soft and Medium compound tyres and finished the session in P18.  

WATCH: 2024 ABU DHABI FP2 HIGHLIGHTS

Final practice of 2024  

The conditions were hot and dry in the final practice session, not representative of the conditions in qualifying and the race.  

Lance finished in P18.  

WATCH: 2024 ABU DHABI FP3 HIGHLIGHTS

Lance qualifies P13

In the final qualifying session of the year, and with much cooler temperatures compared to earlier in the day, Lance safely navigated Q1 and progressed into Q2 in P12.  

After opting to run three sets of Softs in Q1, Lance only had a used set available to him in Q2.  

As others around him were on new tyres, he was unable to press into the final segment of qualifying. He was classified as P13.  

WATCH: 2024 ABU DHABI QUALIFYING HIGHLIGHTS

Battles in traffic

Lance started the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on the Medium compound. He made a good start during a chaotic first lap which saw several incidents and a Virtual Safety Car.  

To help with race pace and tyre wear, Lance and the team opted for a two-stop strategy. His first stop came on Lap 11, where he swapped to the Hard compound. He rejoined the race in P16.  

Lance was able to make a number of overtakes on track. By Lap 30, he was up in P10. His second pit stop came on Lap 33 and he came back out in P14 on another set of Hard compound tyres.  

He fought hard for the remainder of the race but unfortunately finished outside of the points in P14.  

WATCH: 2024 ABU DHABI GRAND PRIX HIGHLIGHTS

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Lance Stroll, Aston Martin Aramco F1® driver, said:

"I had a good start to the race and made up four positions on the opening lap, but the car didn't have the performance to fight for much more today.

"After the pit stops, we just didn't have the pace to climb all the way back through the traffic into the points, but we made a few positions back passing [Jack] Doohan and [Yuki] Tsunoda.

"This wasn't the season we were hoping for, but we will be pushing hard to come back stronger next season. Thanks to the team for all their hard work over a challenging year."