Aston Martin's home-team headache around Lance Stroll just got a number attached to it. After both cars exited Q1 of the Canadian Grand Prix, with Fernando Alonso roughly one second clear of his teammate inside the bottom six, a graphic resurfaced that turned the team's Saturday into a paddock talking point: 41-0.
That, in the count being run by the F1 head-to-head tracker referenced by the P1 with Matt & Tommy podcast, is Alonso's current run of consecutive qualifying sessions in which he has out-paced Stroll. The streak excludes sprint qualifyings and stretches back roughly two seasons — including the entirety of 2025 and every non-sprint session of 2026 to date.
Host Matt Gallagher read out the figure during their post-qualifying review and paused on the implications. "Fernando Alonso 41 nil against Lance Stroll. That is actually insane. 41 consecutive qualifying sessions ahead."
Co-host Tommy Bellingham could only agree. "How not a single moment where you've just had a really good qualifying, or Alonso's had a problem, or that — that is madness. It's quite the streak."
The two hosts settled on the only obvious takeaway. "Alonso is a pretty good driver, isn't he? He's pretty good indeed."
The streak is more than a statistical curiosity. Aston Martin's structural rebuild — anchored around the arrival of Adrian Newey as team principal, Andy Cowell as overseer of organisational change, and a new factory and wind tunnel coming online for 2027 — has been sold as a long project. But the team continues to have a 2026 driver pairing in which one driver has not been beaten on a single non-sprint Saturday in two years, and another driver who carries his family name onto the front of the chassis.
That asymmetry will not change Stroll's seat in the short term. The Aston Martin team's ownership structure makes that essentially academic. What it will change is the volume of paddock questions about who is going to drive the 2027 Newey car alongside Alonso, and whether the team's own data — which it does not share — paints the same picture as the public 41-0.
For now, both Aston Martins start Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix from the back of the grid. By a season-on-season measure, Alonso has the harder route to a result. The streak still says otherwise.
