Stroll admits Aston Martin were lucky to finish 3-4 in Australia

Lance Stroll expressed his delight of his team’s best ever finish with Fernando Alonso clinching yet another podium and the Canadian finishing behind him in fourth.

However, Stroll remarked that his team should feel blessed that both cars managed to get over the line in one piece as real mayhem enrolled at Albert Park.

Stroll lined up sixth for the final restart after Kevin Magnussen‘s  crash triggered a second red flag for the day, three places behind teammate Alonso.

Both of them became victims of a ongoing track accidents, as the experienced Spaniard was clipped from the back from fellow compatriot Carlos Sainz, sending him into the wall, while Stroll completely missed his braking for turn 3 and scampered into the run-off area.

Luckily for them a third red flag was waved, meaning the grid had to restore their places in the order prior to the second red flag as the first sector wasn’t yet crossed.

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“Yeah, I mean, it was a funny race. I think we got away with some stuff going wrong at the end.” reflected Stroll.

“I had my big lock-up, and I was kind of running in third, and then I went off the track just with the tyres being super cold, and Fernando got hit and spun.”

“Then you know, we lucked out with the timing of the red flags, so yeah… we’ll take it, some good points.”

Aston Martin currently sit second in the Constructors Standings with 65 points, which is already more than their entire 2022 campaign, where they managed to bag only 55.