While many Formula One fans may think Canadian driver Lance Stroll doesn’t deserve a race seat, his multiple time world champion teammate Fernando Alonso would disagree.

Lance has been in the sport for many years now, but fans question if Lance Stroll is still there because of his skills behind the wheel, or because his dad is the owner of the team.

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Lawrence Stroll is a Canadian Billionaire and has bought into Aston Martin Racing with the sole purpose of supporting his son Lances efforts to become a Formula One world champion.

Lance has been met with tons of criticism for this from fans who say he doesn’t deserve a spot in Formula One. Lances new teammate Fernando Alonso seems to disagree with fans though.

Fernando Alonso is a two time Formula One world champion and widely regarded as one of the best drivers in the world.

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Alonso stated that he thinks stroll is a young, obsessed, talented driver. Fernando also believes that Stroll has world championship potential.

This is huge coming from a driver of Alonso’s caliber. While fans may not think Lance deserves to be there, their opinion doesn’t matter as much as a former world champions.

With kind words like these, it seems that the pair are getting along as teammates so far. Time will tell if sunshine and rainbows will continue at Aston Martin though.