It was apparent earlier than the 2025 season started that Alexander Albon was about to face his hardest problem in opposition to a crew mate since Purple Bull paired him with Max Verstappen 5 years earlier.
Alexander Albon
| Finest | Worst | |
|---|---|---|
| GP begin | 5 | 19 |
| GP end | 5 (x3) | 15 |
| Factors | 54 | |
However Albon has measured up effectively in opposition to the extra skilled Carlos Sainz Jnr and delivered every of Williams’ 4 finest outcomes to this point.
It started with an excellent drive within the damp Australian Grand Prix, aided by his crew mate’s enter to his technique, following Sainz’s first-lap crash. From sixth on the grid Albon delivered his first of three fifth-place finishes.
He adopted that up with seventh in China, the place he even led briefly, and ninth in Japan. His factors run paused in Bahrain, due solely partly to the stewards’ oversight in qualifying which prevented him collaborating in Q2 when he ought to have completed.
There have been no factors within the dash race at Miami, both, although there would have been had Albon not collected a penalty for a Security Automotive infringement. He resumed his points-scoring run the next day, nonetheless.
Albon repeated Williams’ finest consequence to this point on the subsequent two rounds with a pair of fifth locations. This got here regardless of him clipping Sainz initially in Miami, damaging his crew mate’s flooring. In Imola he battled the Ferrari drivers for one more fifth-place end.
However after qualifying effectively sufficient in Monaco to take ninth within the race, Albon’s luck abandoned him. He failed to complete the following three races with technical issues. Though extra factors have been unlikely to comply with in Spain as he collided with Nico Hulkenberg early on, Albon was operating effectively inside the highest 10 earlier than bother struck in Austria.
By now Williams have been beneath larger strain from rivals who had put extra effort into upgrading their 2025 automobiles. Nonetheless he took eighth on house floor at Silverstone, passing Fernando Alonso on the ultimate lap, and starred once more at Spa with a wonderful run to sixth within the rain, repelling Lewis Hamilton over the ultimate laps.
Williams appears more likely to face a more durable time within the second half of the season, as Albon’s wrestle to fifteenth in Hungary indicated. Nevertheless they’ve constructed up a considerable factors buffer over the opening races, thanks in no small half to Albon’s efforts, which have left him simply 10 factors behind Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s works Mercedes within the drivers’ standings.
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