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Albon: Crashes should not overshadow “unbelievable” Colapinto’s Williams F1 stint
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Albon: Crashes should not overshadow “unbelievable” Colapinto’s Williams F1 stint

By Miles Cooper December 21, 2024
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Williams driver Alex Albon thinks Franco Colapinto’s powerful last Formulation 1 races with the squad mustn’t overshadow the superb outcomes the Argentinian produced.

Colapinto’s spectacular early races since stepping in for Logan Sargeant in Monza turned heads within the paddock, they usually additionally yielded Williams 5 vital factors over three race weekends, which regarded essential on the time earlier than the group was lastly left behind by its midfield rivals.

Colapinto’s type, composed angle and fast adaptation to the calls for of F1 even made Crimson Bull contemplate making a transfer for the 21-year-old because it weighed up its driver choices for 2025.

However as swiftly because the Argentine appeared on Crimson Bull’s radar, a spate of pricey crashes in Brazil and Las Vegas had been fast to place Christian Horner and Helmut Marko off once more, with the pair turning in the direction of their very own driver pool as a substitute.

Based on Albon, it’s harsh to simply decide Colapinto on the harder second half of his nine-race Williams cameo, as its FW46 additionally turned harder to drive and the group was having to struggle tougher and tougher to maintain up with the competitors.

When requested if Colapinto’s crashes have overshadowed his season, Albon replied: “I hope not. I do not suppose he deserves it to be.

“I feel it actually goes in tandem with the efficiency of the automobile, and it turned tough on the finish of the season. It was tough for me. I did not have a unbelievable finish of the season, and I do not all the time simply blame myself, so I feel the group is aware of how good he’s.”

Albon: Crashes should not overshadow “unbelievable” Colapinto’s Williams F1 stint

Franco Colapinto, Williams Racing, Alex Albon, Williams Racing, on the drivers parade

Photograph by: Dom Romney / Motorsport Pictures

Albon believes the timing of Colapinto’s arrival helped him settle in as a result of round September Williams was at its greatest.

After having taken weight out of its chassis, Williams additionally launched its solely main replace package deal across the Dutch Grand Prix, earlier than it began sliding again once more in the direction of the tip of the yr.

“By way of timing, I feel it was excellent he got here in when the automobile was at its best and probably simpler to drive again than it’s now, on tracks that had been additionally fairly good to drive,” mentioned Albon.

“To be honest he did an excellent job in Baku and Singapore, they usually weren’t straightforward tracks to drive. After which it is simply F1; I feel we have fallen again. You may nonetheless get into Q2 with a mean lap whereas later you needed to do an important lap to get into Q2 and all these sort of issues. And it simply distorts barely the place it comes.

“It is easy to overpush when it is that tight and there’s no margin to be gradual or to make a mistake. Each of us went by way of a troublesome group of races, so I would not blame him an excessive amount of. Particularly Brazil, first time within the moist, that is not straightforward round a troublesome observe. After which clearly Vegas was simply tough.

“He is a unbelievable driver. I really feel like he is proved his price in Formulation 1. Positively, when he joined, I underestimated simply how fast he was going to be, and I imagine we’ll see him in Formulation 1 in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later.”

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