Williams Method 1 driver Alex Albon says he has “a lot confidence” his staff can take one other step ahead after its rise to fifth in 2025.
Williams secured a snug fifth place in final season’s championship because the skilled and fast mixture of Albon and new team-mate Carlos Sainz mixed for 137 factors,- the Grove-based squad’s finest lead to a decade.
Even when the squad has been largely targeted on 2026 and past, its 2025 marketing campaign is the results of a fast transformation of the staff behind the scenes, led by staff boss James Vowles and sanctioned by proprietor Dorilton Capital.
Following a troubled 2024 marketing campaign that was marked by pricey crashes, a late and chubby launch automobile and varied operational errors, 2025 has given Albon confidence that Williams is now in a significantly better place to set its sights on the entrance 4 groups, moderately than look over its shoulder.
Carlos Sainz took two podiums for Williams, together with in Qatar
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“We have had just a few years the place we took a step again. I believe 2024 stands out to me as a yr of setbacks,” Albon mentioned. “However the foundations of the staff turned quite a bit more healthy, and also you noticed a giant leap from 2024 to 2025. There’s an excellent positivity, nice tradition inside the staff, nice optimism as nicely. There’s confidence within the staff as nicely.
“I really feel like we’re a staff that may do nice issues. Even when we have been to begin sluggish [in 2026], I believe we have an excellent staff behind us who can discover options and adapt rapidly.
“I have been on this staff after we did our first regulation change in 2022, and it was a troublesome yr. I have a look at our staff now and see how a lot more healthy we’re. I’ve a lot confidence within the staff to ship a very good automobile subsequent yr.”
Williams returned to the rostrum in 2025 with two hard-earned third locations for Sainz in Azerbaijan and Qatar. However Albon was additionally eager to level out there’s nonetheless a giant hole between F1’s conventional entrance 4 of McLaren, Mercedes, Pink Bull and Ferrari and the remainder of the midfield.
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“The hole from P10 to P5 is smaller than the hole from P5 to P1, and even from P5 to P4,” he identified. “So, we all know that we have nonetheless bought an extended street forward of us, however I am hoping my podium probabilities come somewhat bit sooner moderately than later.”
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