ON THIS DAY: STROLL WINS FINAL RACE BEFORE BECOMING A FORMULA 1 DRIVER

Lance Stroll's final junior category race came ten years ago this week—a third straight Hockenheim win that closed out his dominant European F3 title run with Prema. Two weeks shy of 18, his Williams seat for 2017 already announced, Stroll drove through from fourth on the grid in what amounted to a victory lap before the main stage.

The field previewed the next decade of F1. George Russell started 15th, Zhou Guanyu 13th, Nikita Mazepin 10th. Anthoine Hubert, who would die in a 2019 F2 crash at Spa, lined up seventh. Ten years on, Stroll remains on the grid at Aston Martin, his father's team, outlasting Zhou and Mazepin but trailing the arc Russell carved from that same junior class.