As for Albon, he had been left upset after failing to make Q3 on Saturday regardless of displaying robust tempo all through apply. However beginning eleventh on the grid, he managed to climb to ninth – and afterwards defined that utilizing his workforce mate’s DRS as a defence mechanism had at all times been on the playing cards.
“After yesterday seemed a bit bleak, let’s simply say, the workforce did a terrific job and turned it round,” Albon mentioned.
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“We performed it protected to create the DRS prepare to make sure that Isack didn’t overtake us. If we obtained left alone, I believe Carlos and I had a bit higher tempo than we confirmed there.
“However we talked about this technique, it obtained introduced up within the technique assembly – really extra with Pierre [Gasly], as a result of Pierre was going to have good race tempo immediately. However then clearly Isack [Hadjar] took his place, and we did the identical factor, so very pleased.”
Williams have returned to fifth within the Teams’ Championship on 25 factors, 5 forward of Haas – the Grove-based workforce having already amassed considerably extra factors than they managed throughout the whole thing of 2024.
