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Villeneuve backs Stroll ability
acques Villeneuve has backed Lance Stroll's abilities to race in F1 ahead of his debut with Williams this season. Stroll will be the first Canadian to start a grand prix since Villeneuve retired in 2006, but his appointment has been derided by some due to the financial backing he brings. However, Villeneuve believes his compatriot is worthy of an F1 seat having proved himself in the junior formulas. 'Definitely he will have to prove himself even more and he knows that. It is just a general attitude that in people's minds that if you have money you cannot have talent which is not true. The two are not linked, the money gives you the opportunity, but it then depends what you are made...
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