Stroll is the son of Canadian billionaire businessman Lawrence Stroll, owner of the Aston Martin F1 Team, and Belgian fashion designer Claire-Anne Stroll. He began karting at age ten, winning the Fédération de Sport Automobile du Québec rookie of the year award in 2008 and driver of the year in 2009. He became a member of the Ferrari Driver Academy in 2010.
His car racing debut came in the 2014 Florida Winter Series, where he raced against future Formula One competitors Nicholas Latifi and Max Verstappen. Stroll made his competitive car-racing debut in the 2014 Italian F4 Championship with Prema, winning the title despite missing the final round due to injury — taking seven race wins, thirteen podium finishes, and five pole positions.
At the start of 2015, Stroll won the New Zealand-based Toyota Racing Series, recording ten podiums including four wins from sixteen starts. He also contested the FIA Formula 3 European Championship with Prema that year, competing against Antonio Giovinazzi, Charles Leclerc, George Russell, and Alexander Albon, and finished fifth. He made a single appearance at the Formula Three Macau Grand Prix, finishing eighth.
In 2016, Stroll began by finishing fifth at the 24 Hours of Daytona driving for Ford Chip Ganassi Racing. He then dominated the FIA Formula 3 European Championship with Prema, winning fourteen races including five consecutive victories at the end of the season. He claimed the title with four races to go, finishing 187 points clear of nearest competitor Maximilian Günther — a record margin.
Stroll joined Williams for the 2017 season, partnering Felipe Massa. He became the first Canadian Formula One driver since 1997 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve. At the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Stroll finished third, becoming the youngest rookie and second-youngest driver to finish on the podium in Formula One, at 18 years and 239 days. He also became the youngest Formula One driver to start from the front row, qualifying second at the Italian Grand Prix at 18 years and 310 days. He ended the season twelfth in the standings.
For 2018, Stroll remained at Williams alongside Sergey Sirotkin. The Williams FW41 was the slowest car of the field and the team finished last in the constructors' championship. Stroll scored the team's first points of the year with eighth place at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. His only Q3 appearance came at the Italian Grand Prix, where he qualified tenth and finished ninth; Sirotkin finished tenth to give Williams their only double points finish of 2018. Stroll ended the season eighteenth, scoring six of the team's seven points.
Stroll moved to Racing Point for 2019 after the team was acquired by a consortium led by his father, replacing Esteban Ocon and partnering Sergio Pérez. He ended the season fifteenth with 21 points, outqualified by Pérez at eighteen of twenty-one races.
In 2020, Stroll and Pérez were retained. Stroll claimed his first Formula One pole position at the Turkish Grand Prix after a wet qualifying session, becoming the first Canadian F1 driver to take pole since Jacques Villeneuve at the 1997 European Grand Prix. He led 32 of 58 laps before dropping to ninth due to reported front-wing damage causing severe tyre graining. He claimed his second Formula One podium at the Italian Grand Prix, and his third at the Sakhir Grand Prix, benefiting from tyre issues for the leading Mercedes cars. The season was interrupted by illness — he withdrew from the Eifel Grand Prix prior to qualifying and shortly afterwards tested positive for COVID-19, returning at the Portuguese Grand Prix. He ended the season eleventh with 75 points.
The Racing Point team rebranded as Aston Martin for 2021. Stroll was partnered by Sebastian Vettel. He scored 34 points across the season, ending thirteenth in the drivers' championship.
For 2022, Aston Martin retained both Stroll and Vettel. Stroll's best result was sixth at the Singapore Grand Prix. A high-speed collision with Fernando Alonso at the United States Grand Prix, where Stroll had started fifth, ended his race. He ended the season fifteenth with 18 points.
In 2023, Alonso replaced the retiring Vettel as Stroll's teammate. Stroll missed all three days of pre-season testing at Bahrain International Circuit after a cycling accident left him with fractures in both wrists and a broken toe; metal screws were inserted in his right wrist during minor surgery. Despite this he returned for the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix, qualifying eighth and finishing sixth. He achieved his best season result — fourth place — at the Australian Grand Prix. He ended the season tenth in the World Drivers' Championship, his career-best, scoring 74 points to Alonso's 206, and was outqualified by Alonso at nineteen of twenty-two races.
In 2024, Stroll scored points in eight races, with a career highlight being seventh place at his home Canadian Grand Prix. He ended the season thirteenth overall. In 2025, Stroll finished sixth at the rain-affected Australian Grand Prix but later withdrew from the Spanish Grand Prix due to a hand and wrist injury his medical consultant linked to his 2023 procedure.
Stroll competed in the 24 Hours of Daytona in 2016 with CGR and in 2018 with Jackie Chan DC Racing. In April 2026 it was announced he would compete in the first round of the 2026 GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup with Comtoyou Racing, alongside Roberto Merhi and Mari Boya.
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