EXCLUSIVE: Alex Albon “enjoying the challenge” of taking Williams to the top

Ale🌱x Albon isn't frustrated by Williams' slow progress to the top of the grid in F1.

Alex Albon
Alex Albon

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alex Albon has insisted he’s “enjoying the challenge” of taking Williams back to the top of F1.

Williams endured a tri𝔍ckier 2024 F1 campaign, slipping back to ninth in the constructors’ champions𝔉hip.

While on balance, Williams were firmly in the midfield at the majorit🔯y of the races, the 2024 chal♐lenger lacked the peakiness of its predecessor.

Williams were also hampered by a number of ✃major shunts throughout the season, resulting in a lack of spare parts - or revꦰerting to older spec upgrades.

Still, the future remains brigh🍬t for Williams and Albon under James Vowles’ leadership.

2025 will see the arrival of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Carlos Sainz from Ferrar๊i, while Vowles has previously outliꦦned Williams’ ambition to propel themselves up the order for the new regulations.

For Albon, his stock has risen s🅷ince leaving Red Bu🤪ll at the end of 2020.

He dismantled Nicholas Latifi in 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell-like fashion and Logan Sargeanꦑt wasn’t a threat during his time with the team.

However, the arrival of Franco Colapintoಌ pose📖d more questions of Albon, crucially ahead of Sainz's arrival.

The Thai driver is a key cog in the Williams machin▨e and that’sꦏ a challenge he’s continues to relish.

Speaking exclusively to earlier 💖this year, Albon - who attracted interest from the likes of Ferrari and Red Bull - dismissed the notion he’s frustrated by Williams’ competitiveness and vowed to leave “any stone unturned”.

“I🎀 see it more as if I believe in this project and for me to commit so many years to the🦩 team is a commitment,” Albon said.

“It’s part of my duty as well to make it work. I feel like I am enjoying the challenge. I feel like we have a big journey ahead of us. If I am thinking of it more like the team is not doing what I can do and all that kind of 🦹thiဣng, I think it’s the wrong mindset.

“In the end 🀅it should be more what is my role in this and I won’t leave any stone unturned to try and get every little percentage of performance out of the car and m🎃ake sure we’re on this journey.”

Results-wise, ﷺ2024 has been a step back for Williams.

In 2023, they secured seventh in the constructors’ championship - their best ♍finish🍬 in six years.

However, part of the reason for their decline in overall results has been a deliberate shift in making the Williams car perform acrossඣ a variety of circuit types, n🔯ot just low downforce ones like Silverstone and Monza.

Albon believes the pain of this change will reward the team long ter💮m.

“It’s true. We know that as a team if we want to be at the best of our level, it’s no good having a peaky car,” he added. “A peaky car is 🧸good in the back field when you’re able to score on two or three races.

“That’s normally enough to get P8 or P9 over P10 in the championship. We know we need to be more consistent and adaptable on different circuits. We’ve definitely taken a step down in terms of straight-line speed compared to our rivals but I also think a lot of 🌱the teams have come towards us.

“It’s all coming into the middle. Right now in Formula 1, all 10 teams driver-wise are very similar which will be quit🍒e interesting.”

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