Spear Stroll equaled the best result of his season in the sprint race of the Austrian Grand Prix. However, he decided not to comment on his career and used his statements in the media to talk about Dilano van’t Hoffan 18-year-old FRECA driver who died in an accident at Spa-Francorchamps.
The Canadian driver had an excellent sprint race in the Red bull ringfinishing in fourth position under attack from his partner Fernando Alonso and equaling his best result of the season, fourth place at the Australian GP (albeit in a long distance race).
However, despite the joy he should have had for one of his best performances of the season, the Canadian driver used his post-race interviews to remember Dilano van’t Hoff, a FRECA driver ( European Regional Formula) aged 18 who died in an accident on the Belgian circuit of spa-francorchamps.
“It was a tough race, but The most important thing today is that we lost someone in Spa, a young talent. It’s a very sad day for racing and I want everyone to think about it today. In that and also how to change that curve from now on because we lost two guys there in five years and that’s not fair. I am thinking of Dilano and his family and I don’t want this to happen again,” he said after the race.
In this way, Stroll decided to use the microphones to honor the memory of Van’t Hoff and demand a change in this curve of Eau Rouge, where he also lost his life in 2019. Anthony Hubert in Formula 2, the other driver cited by the Aston Martin driver.
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