023 was an odd campaign for Lance Stroll - his seventh season as a Formula 1 driver during which he climbed into the top 50 for drivers with the most Grand Prix starts, making it up to 143 as of Abu Dhabi, just one behind Emerson Fittipaldi's total.

The Canadian has shown flashes of speed throughout his time in F1, delivering podium finishes and claiming a pole position, on merit, in the tricky conditions of the 2020 Turkish Grand Prix - but he floundered badly in 2023.

In the nine races between Austria and Qatar, he claimed just 10 points, five of which came through a fourth place in the Speilberg Sprint and posted a DNS in Singapore after his huge qualifying crash.

That dreadful run of form, which coincided with the car being at its weakest, ultimately cost the team fourth in the Constructors' to McLaren.

Team-mate Fernando Alonso scored 206 points whilst McLaren's lead driver Lando Norris took home 205, so pretty evenly matched between the two lead drivers.

Norris's team-mate Oscar Piastri banked 97 points to Stroll's tally of 74, with Aston Martin falling 22 points short of the Woking squad.

It was a season of cross-roads as Aston's strong start was intersected by McLaren's recovery given the fact that Alonso banked eight podiums and Stroll, who finished 10th, was the only driver inside the top 12 not to bank a podium all year spells out where he went wrong.