The Aston Martin's design has drawn admiring glances but the car is slow so far
Lance Stroll says Aston Martin are four seconds off the pace in the run-up to the new Formula 1 season.
The new car, created under the leadership of design legend Adrian Newey, has struggled for both pace and reliability so far in pre-season testing.
Canadian Stroll was 5.2 seconds off the pace when he drove the car at the start of the first Bahrain pre-season test on Wednesday and team-mate Fernando Alonso is more than four seconds off so far on Thursday.
Headline lap times in pre-season testing are notoriously unreliable as accurate predictors of genuine form, but Aston Martin are under no illusions about the struggle they have on their hands.
