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Szafnauer on Stroll relationship: Two popes, that's not possible

Former Aston Martin team principal Otmar Szafnauer hinted it was impossible to work under team owner Lawrence Stroll. The 57-year-old left Aston Martin to join Alpine in the off-season after spending 12 years at the team. Having joined in 2009, he found himself with a new boss in August 2018 when a consortium led by Stroll purchased the team and rebranded it as Racing Point. The pair worked together for three years but Szafnauer has now suggested Stroll's hands-on approach was the main factor in his decision to look for pastures new. 'Two popes, that's not possible,' he is reported as saying to F1TV during the Bahrain test. While he did not go on to name Stroll directly, he did compare...
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