Bizarre backstory emerges behind Lance Stroll’s retirement from the Spanish GP

Lance Stroll will certainly not remember the 2025 Barcelona GP as his best Formula 1 weekend, with the Canadian forced to withdraw even before race day due to a worsening wrist injury sustained during the 2023 pre-season in Bahrain.

The Aston Martin driver was eliminated in Q2 during qualifying, finishing with the fourteenth fastest time. Shortly after, the English team released a surprising statement announcing his official withdrawal due to severe pain in the same wrist he injured just over two years ago.

While it is still unclear whether Lawrence's son will recover in time for the tenth round of the season at the historic Gilles Villeneuve circuit in Canada, the BBC has reported an interesting—and somewhat bizarre—backstory involving Stroll following qualifying.

In fact, according to Andrew Benson, Stroll would ''have damaged equipment in the garage and sworn at team members'' after being knocked out in Q2.

''Lance was upset'', It was stated by a team spokesperson, confirming the version of the British journalist.”

However, according to the same source, the wrist injury and the outburst in the pits at the end of qualifying are unrelated incidents, pending further updates from the team.

At the moment, Felipe Drugovich appears to be the frontrunner to replace the Canadian in just under two weeks, although no official confirmation has been given yet.