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Lance Stroll has hit back at Jacques Villeneuve, saying the former Williams driver is "always negative".1997 world champion Villeneuve, who drove for the British team when he won his title over 20 years ago, is a serial critic of his fellow Canadian Stroll.
Now, Villeneuve has hit out at Williams for reportedly selecting the heavily backed Russian Sergey Sirotkin instead of Robert Kubica to be Stroll's 2018 teammate. Stroll has been heavily criticised this season for not being ready for the step to F1 and paying his way into the team, with Villeneuve saying: "They already sold their soul to the billions of Lawrence Stroll, who only cares about his son"
Stroll, 19, hit back in the pages of the French publication Auto Hebdo: "I don't pay too much attention to what he's saying. It's always going to be negative anyway. He never supported me, in every sense of the word. He only sees the negative. Even the Baku podium was not a positive in his eyes," Stroll insisted.
However, Williams' 2018 lineup - expected to be made official in the next week or so - is raising eyebrows throughout the motor racing world, due to the controversy surrounding the potential appointment of Sergey Sirotkin over Robert Kubica, with former driver Felipe Massa retiring because of the lack of decisiveness amongst the team, after previously being open to continuing in 2018.
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I remember Villeneuva saying very strongly that Kubica doesn't belong to F1 around Hungaroring GP. I would be very surprised if he actually changed his mind about that. I suspect he was going to criticize Williams who ever they select.