Alexander Albon says the F1 British GP has been Williams’ strongest weekends on pure pace, as they secure more points in their bags.
It has been a crazy ride for Williams in the last few rounds where they have looked solid while fighting for points at the fag end of the Top 10. The F1 British GP weekend saw them take a step up with both Albon and Logan Sargeant.
They showed pace in the race too even where the American achieved his best result of 11th while Albon ended up eighth ahead of the two Ferrari cars. He termed the grand prix weekend as the strongest for Williams on pure pace that they showed.
At one point in the race, it seemed like Albon would only manage a point, but when the safety car was deployed, it helped the Thai racer to gain places. The four points helped Williams to be joint seventh in the standings with 11 against their name, same as Haas.
“It’s been a great weekend,” he said to media. “P8… It’s funny that it’s actually our worst position of the weekend, which is crazy to say. It just shows you that points were on the cards.
“In some ways, when you know the car’s possible for points, it puts a little bit more emphasis on… I don’t want to say pressure, but expectation to score points. To be able to get P8 for the team, now we’re joint seventh in the constructors’, it’s huge for us. That Safety Car put it all in the mix.
“Of course we got a bit fortunate with it, but sometimes we ride the luck. I think in Austria we weren’t so lucky and this weekend we were. I’m super-happy, I feel like that’s three weekends on the bounce now where we’ve had solid pace – so let’s keep it going. I think as a team this has been our strongest weekend so far, on pure pace better than Canada.
“It’s been a very good weekend, so I have to say we are… There was no defending this weekend, you have to have pace here to get points and we did, so I’m very happy. We shouldn’t expect this at every race going forward, but we will definitely have these circuits where we will shine.
“I feel like in these moments we’ve got to score points and so far we have. In every racetrack where it’s been physically possible, I feel like we’ve done the job. We’re going to have a few more opportunities this year, and we’re going to have to use them to get in front of the Haas and the Alfa in the constructors’. On the other ones, pray for some rain or whatever,” summed up Albon.
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