Lance Stroll Is a Risk Williams Didn’t Need to Take for 2017 Formula 1 Season

When the inevitable question came, Formula One's latest boy wonder dealt with it as well as he possibly could. As deputy team principal Claire Williams mused, per Sky Sports, the team were "really, really excited" as they announced their 2017 driver lineup on Thursday morning, confirming teenager Lance Stroll would replace the retiring Felipe Massa at the end of this season. The new partnership between Stroll and Valtteri Bottas, she declared, would mark "a new chapter in Williams' history," generating renewed interest in a team who have been all too easy to overlook over the last two years. Yet the question—the question that needed to be asked—risked darkening the mood slightly, and there was no easy way of putting it. Wa...

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