The Williams team had a very strong start to the season, with Alex Albon finishing in the top ten in Bahrain and F1 debutant Logan Sargent 12th. The last time a Williams driver scored points in the first round of the championship was six years ago, when Felipe Massa, who was spending his last season, finished sixth in Australia.
In 2017, the Grove team finished the season in fifth place in the Constructors’ Championship, after which there was a long period of failure, but perhaps this year at least they will start to return to the level of a few years ago.
Judging by Albon’s comments, everyone at the Wiliams is in a fighting spirit as the team has clearly made progress and will look to prove it as the season progresses.
“I was very upset when Pierre Gasly got ahead of me and I lost my position,” Alex told SpeedCity Broadcasting. – I thought I had moved up to 10th and then fell back to 11th, so I decided I had let the team down. But they told me on the radio, “You’re moving to 10th position,” and I seemed to feel a new wave of energy, which allowed me to deflect Yuki Tsunoda’s attacks.
Everything worked out very well. Before the start of the weekend, we performed a strategic analysis, comparing our speed capabilities with the pace of our rivals, and it turned out that we closed the top ten, this is no secret. However, we did a great job and, to be honest, the result pleasantly surprised me.
Of course we have to keep working because we know our weaknesses, but at the same time we feel that we can continue to progress and earn points in the upcoming races.
Of course, the Aston Martin team did a great job, climbed to the podium and this result caught everyone’s attention. But if you look at how much we’ve managed to add, we’re second in terms of progress.
Compared to last year, the team has progressed very well and now we can fight for higher positions. To regularly fight for places in the middle of the pack I would have to add a few tenths, but for now I am very satisfied.
Source: F1 News
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