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Albon’s top-five end all the way down to Williams technique execution in Melbourne
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Albon’s top-five end all the way down to Williams technique execution in Melbourne

By Miles Cooper March 16, 2025
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Alex Albon praised his Williams crew for its technique execution within the mixed-conditions 2025 Components 1 season opener in Australia, as he completed fourth after a well-timed change to intermediates.

Though Albon had been gazumped at the beginning by Charles Leclerc, the Anglo-Thai racer held off Lewis Hamilton’s makes an attempt to move within the early phases and spent a lot of the race clinging on to seventh place.

Williams’ resolution to pit Albon for intermediate tyres got here simply as an intensifying burst of rain had struck the circuit within the closing sector, which introduced him forward of the likes of Leclerc and Yuki Tsunoda as his fast rivals took a raffle by staying out on slicks.

Though Albon was unable to comprise Andrea Kimi Antonelli within the closing act of the race because the rookie Italian had put him beneath scrutiny, Antonelli copped a five-second penalty for an unsafe launch, which reversed the order on the flag.

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Albon revealed that Williams had spoken earlier than the race about capitalising on chaos within the early rounds of the season, and that the crew’s decisiveness with technique had finally paid off.

“I believe as a crew we actually executed every thing we did in the present day,” Albon enthused after scoring Williams’ finest lead to a full-distance grand prix since Lance Stroll took a podium in Baku in 2017.

“First race it is not simple to be dialled in, when it comes to technique and method to the weekend and we executed every thing so effectively in the present day to get that P4.

Albon’s top-five end all the way down to Williams technique execution in Melbourne

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“It is only a incredible begin and it simply exhibits we made an enormous step from final 12 months. These outcomes, P4s, they are not going to return round very many occasions this 12 months.

“We have talked lots about capitalising early internally, in attempting to ensure that we took benefit of rookie drivers and issues like that to get these factors rapidly.”

Albon admitted that he was uncertain Williams would have the ability to compete within the situations, citing the wind and the proneness of the intermediate tyres to expertise thermal degradation.

He recommended that the automobile was set again in efficiency by the gusty climate, however that it nonetheless confirmed nice enchancment from 2024.

“I again myself in these situations, I do know my limits and I do know to not overpush it,” Albon defined. “However, on the similar time, beginning P6, I’d have been very completely satisfied to complete a P7 when one of many Ferraris bought previous.

“However to get into the weekend in the present day and get P4, I would not wish to have completed that race once more! I am glad that it is completed. Gusty climate and inter tyres that begin overheating typically are usually not mixture for us.

“All being sincere, I believe relative to the RB and the Alpine, we weren’t as aggressive as we needed to be. However we have been far more aggressive than we have been final 12 months in these situations.

“It was good to know that the tempo was nonetheless there and I used to be simply risking a little bit bit extra after I knew the pit window was gonna open, and issues like that.

“Once I pushed I might catch Yuki, no downside, and I used to be simply sort of ready for him to field or not field and clearly we got here in first and did the best name.”

Further reporting by Emily Selleck

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