Aston Martin crew proprietor Lawrence Stroll stated he hopes to see each his son Lance and Fernando Alonso on the rostrum at his residence Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal this weekend, regardless of Purple Bull’s dominance.

Purple Bull have gained all seven Method One races to this point this season, with double world champion and final 12 months’s Canadian GP winner Max Verstappen taking 5 and Sergio Perez two.

Alonso has made the rostrum 5 occasions in 2023 however Stroll, who began the season with damaged wrists after a biking accident, beat him in Barcelona two weeks in the past.

Stroll senior, talking at an Aston Martin flagship occasion in New York, advised Reuters the purpose is to see a Canadian driver on the Montreal podium for the primary time since Jacques Villeneuve completed second in 1996.

“These are precisely the plans. Hopefully get two automobiles on the rostrum,” he stated.

“I am extraordinarily assured. I consider the automobile shall be very robust across the Montreal circuit, it fits our automobile nicely … so I am actually trying ahead to going residence and actually trying ahead to an excellent race.”

Mercedes jumped forward of Aston Martin, who use their engines, into second place total after the Spanish Grand Prix with Stroll and Alonso sixth and seventh and combating larger tyre put on than anticipated.

Mercedes’ seven-times world champion Lewis Hamilton was second in Spain and has a stellar file in Canada.

The Briton has gained in Montreal a record-equalling seven occasions and the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve was additionally the place, in 2007, he took the primary of his 103 profession wins.

Lawrence Stroll stated Aston Martin understood their shortcomings on the Circuit de Catalunya.

“I consider we’re bringing options to these and a few upgrades into Canada,” he stated. “I feel he [Lance] demonstrated in Barcelona he is now beginning, it took six or seven races, to really feel higher … I consider they [the two drivers] shall be equal by the top of the season,” he added.

Requested whether or not Alonso, now 41, may nonetheless be with the crew after they begin a brand new engine partnership with Honda in 2026, the billionaire dominated nothing out.

“I feel most individuals would by no means have believed Fernando could be round at the moment,” he stated. “Most likely a bit lengthy to see him round in ’26 however by no means say by no means.”