Lance Stroll's Dutch Grand Prix record is the quietest in the current grid and the most consistent in one particular way: he has driven all six modern runnings in the same colours. No team changes and no dramatic swings.
Six starts, all with Aston Martin, and a best finish of seventh. Here is the honest account of Stroll at Zandvoort.
The 2025 recovery drive
The standout comes last. In 2025 Stroll qualified a lowly 19th, after suffering a crash twice on the same weekend. He walked away unharmed after both the crashes during Friday's free practice and Saturday's qualifying.
However, he then carved his way up to seventh over the course of the race for his best Zandvoort finish and a healthy points haul. On a circuit where overtaking is famously hard, climbing twelve places is no small feat and easily the highlight of his Dutch record.
There is no pole or podium here, but that 2025 drive showed what he can do when a race opens up in front of him.
Before that, the pattern was steady midfield running. Twelfth, tenth, eleventh, thirteenth: four races spent circulating just outside or just inside the points, with a single point in 2022 the only reward. It is the record of a driver in a car that, for most of this stretch, simply did not have the pace to do much more at Zandvoort.
2026: no repeat
There was no second recovery drive. Stroll qualified nineteenth again in 2026, the same slot he had turned into seventh a year earlier, but this time the car did not last and he was classified twentieth after retiring.
It leaves the 2025 result looking even more like the outlier of his Zandvoort record rather than the start of something.
Lance Stroll's Dutch GP record year by year
The table is remarkably level until 2025, where the recovery drive finally lifts it clear of the midfield noise, and then drops away again in 2026.
| Year | Team | Grid | Finish | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Aston Martin | 12th | 12th | 0 |
| 2022 | Aston Martin | 10th | 10th | 1 |
| 2023 | Aston Martin | 11th | 11th | 0 |
| 2024 | Aston Martin | 8th | 13th | 0 |
| 2025 | Aston Martin | 19th | 7th | 6 |
| 2026 | Aston Martin | 19th | DNF (retired) | 0 |
Lance Stroll and Aston Martin
Every one of these results has come in Aston Martin green, first under the Racing Point-derived cars and then the machines that carried Fernando Alonso to a podium here in 2023. That Stroll has not matched his teammate's Zandvoort high says as much about racing luck as anything, but the 2025 drive hints there is more in him at this track.
Lance Stroll's Dutch Grand Prix record is a slow burn: four years of anonymity, a genuinely impressive recovery in 2025 and then a retirement in 2026. No podium, but that climb from 19th to seventh is still an amazing feat at the circuit.
