Aston Martin are ‘going nowhere’ under Lawrence Stroll, according to former Formula 1 team boss Colin Kolles.
The Canadian billionaire took charge of the team back in 2018 with the target of gate crashing F1’s elite, however this has proved harder to do that he first thought.
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Lawrence Stroll is the Canadian billionaire who owns Aston Martin’s F1 team
Last weekend’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix was the fourth consecutive race in which Aston Martin have failed to get a point on the board, meaning that it’s been a less than impressive start to the 2022 campaign.
But while Sebastian Vettel is yet to make his first appearance of the new season, the man who was part of the team until 2008, Kolles, believes that the Silverstone team are going nowhere fast under Stroll.
Speaking to SPORT1, Kolles said: “It won’t work anymore.
“You have a team owner who thinks he is the team boss, who knows everything better and thinks he should put his son up front with all his might.
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“For me, that is the completely wrong approach.
“The fish always stinks from the head. I can see the racing team going nowhere.
“As long as Mr Whitmarsh is in charge and Mr Stroll doesn’t see that he should be staying at home and only giving budgetary guidelines and letting people work who know their stuff and get the right people to lead the team, it will never work in life.”
“If someone thinks they’ll get into Formula 1 and be in the front ranks overnight, then it won’t work that quickly,” he said.
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“You have to have a plan. You could have had the plan that new rules would come in 2022 and work on them. However, Mr Stroll decided a few years ago that it should now be done quickly, no matter what the cost.
“There have been many investors who have tried to tell me that they know how business works.
“Then I said that may be, but I think Formula 1 is a bit different.
“I used to tell them if you take a million of any currency and throw it on a fire, the money will burn up just as quickly as in Formula 1 if you don’t know what you’re doing, and that is the case that is happening at Aston Martin.”
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