Lance Stroll is a very fortunate young man. Seventeen years old, recently announced as a Williams Formula 1 development driver, and about to start his second season with Prema Powerteam in the Formula 3 European Championship.

He's also very wealthy, but that's just an extension of the way of the racing world is at the moment. Costs in junior single-seaters are so high, and outside support so low in the current economic climate, that these strata are the preserve mainly of those with healthy private financial backing.

In this racing world made up of the offspring of successful businessmen, it's rare that any young driver at this level has a father who is employed by somebody else - Antonio Giovinazzi and Racing Steps protege Ben Barnicoat spring to mind as exceptions to this rule - but that doesn't mean to say that the wealthy don't deserve their place in the sport.