EXCLUSIVE: Alex Albon doubts Williams “hierarchy” shift following Carlos Sainz arrival

Alex Albon tells wuqian0821.com's Connor McDonagh about 💧dynamic after Carlos S𒁏ainz arrives

Alex Albon
Alex Albon

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alex Albon doesn’t think 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Williams will need to adopt a clear “hierarchy” within the team following 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Carlos Sainz’s arrival for the 2025 F1 season.

Sainz will switch from Ferrari to Williams for 2025 after he was overlooked by a number of top teams, inclu🌺ding Mercedes and Red Bull.

Sainz is widely-regarded as one of 𝓰F1’s best performers because of how close he has pushed Charles Leclerc during his stint at Maranello since 2021.

He also beat Lando Norris during hi♔s two seasons at McLaren, ultimately ඣearning him a spot at Ferrari in place of Sebastian Vettel.

Sp𒈔eaking exclusively to wuqian0821.com at theꦦ Dutch Grand Prix, Albon dismissed suggestions that Williams’ new driver line-up would result in a clear “hierarchy” within the team with one driver potentially being favoured.

“I don’t think we can afford to play a hierarchy style,” Albon exclusively told wuqian0821.com. “We’re just here to scor⭕e points. It’s so tight. I don’t think we’re going to be in the top teams for next year so we just need to make sure we have both꧑ cars performing.

“That goes b🍸ack to my point, we just need to make sure we’re in a good place within the team to be able to have two drivers who are going to be fighting. I believe we’re going to be closely matched.

“He’s a highly-rated driver and it will be great to go up against him. We just need to make sure we’re in a good place within thꦕe team to be able to have two drive💖rs that are fighting. I believe we’re going to be closely matched.

“He's a very highly rated driver and it’s going to be great to go up against him. We just need to make sure we have the foundations to be able to suppor🌺t that.”

Sainz’s future continued to be a hot topic in the months pri🐲or to t🧸he announcement earlier this month.

The 29-year-old was heavily linked with the Audi pro✃ject as well as Alpine, with links intensifying following the arr🍬ival of Flavio Briatore.

Sain♛z ultimately opted for Williams𒊎, arguably giving the Grove outfit their strongest line-up since the early 2000s with Ralf Schumacher and Juan-Pablo Montoya. 

Reflecting on the annꦚouncement, Albon conceded it “wasn’t unexpected” before explaining what specifically he’s excited about Sainz’s arrival.

“I know James [Vowles] was very keen on getting Carlos early in the season," Albon said. "I think for the most part, what I find the most exciting is when I think about me coming from Red Bull to Williams there was so much stuff that I✅ learned from Red Bull.

“It fast-tracked a little bit where I could jump into a Williams carꦏ and knew straightaway what areas were weak, what areas were strong, what areas I need to focus on and what areas I almost could ignore a🔜nd allocate my time to other things. 

"I📖 think with Carlos coming in, he’s going to have so muc🌊h experience especially with this new generation of car to know where the weaknesses are.

“I’ve spent two and a half, almost three years now driving the Williams car in this current generation of car. I have my own ideas of where we’re weak and what not.&n🍌bsp;

"With Carlos coming in with that experꦦience from Ferrari, it’s🔴 going to be very valuable. I am sure when he comes we're going to braindump and ask him everything.”

A point to prove?

Sinc🃏e leaving Red Bull at the end of 2020, Albon has established himself as one of F1’s topꦓ performers.

However, arguably, a question mark remains over the size of his improvement since leaving Williams given 🌄the identity of his teammates.

Nicholas𒈔 Latifi struggled considerably with the Williams FW44 in 2022, while Logan Sargeant has struggled.

Albon is relishing the challenge of going up against Sainz - but insisted he’s not interested i𒁏n “comparisons” with his teammate for next year.

“It’s not my place to draw c🔴omparisons around,” he added. “The media do the comparisons. I am concentrating on myself. I en💛joy the challenges.

“I think it’s great to have Carlos onboard. I 🅠think we’re going to learn a lot from each other. I see it as an exciting thing.”

This weekend🎃 at the F1 Italian Grand Prix, Albon will have a new teammat🗹e to contend with.

Williams opted to replace under-performing Logan Sargeant with Franc🍎o Colapinto, from their driver academy, for the rest of this year.

Colapinto will race in the final nine rounds of the season before Sainz takes ove๊r permanently.

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