As part of a daily series in the run-up to the start of pre-season, Motorsport Week brings you brief left-field reflections and stories of teams, drivers and reserve/test drivers that will be part of the Formula 1 paddock in 2019. Lance Stroll will compete for Racing Point this year having spent two seasons with Williams, before which he was a long-term Ferrari junior. And he’s still only 20. Ferrari founded its Driver Academy at the end of 2009 after recognising that it did not have a suitable replacement when Felipe Massa suffered his serious injury in Hungary. It has since guided the late Jules Bianchi and Charles Leclerc into Formula 1, but one of its first signings was Stroll...
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