Alex Albon: “Williams is a home, and I want to take this team to the place we want to see it”

“It feels like home“This is how Alexander has described Albonpilot Williams F1to the team British. In an interview with the portal Motorsporthe Thai He was full of praise for the team grovewhich he wants to see soon in higher positions.

The historic team, which has seven drivers’ and nine constructors’ world titles, is currently going through a bad time. James’s Vowles They are ninth in the team table, after obtaining only 11 points.

“Precisely because (the fact that it is a home), the start of the season is sometimes even more frustrating,” says Albon. “In part you feel responsible. And, like with anything else, this team means the world to me. “I want to see him in a better position than his current one.”

Likewise, Williams has not won since Spanish Grand Prix in 2012, when the Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado He achieved the only victory of his career in Formula 1. Ten years later, in 2022, Alexander joined the team after a year without a seat in the premier class.

“All of us who have been at Williams for more than three or four years feel a certain responsibility and the desire to take this team to the place where we want to see it,” emphasizes the British-born driver.

Alexander Albon debuted in Formula 1 in 2019, led by Toro Rosso. That same year, he made the jump to the team Red Bull. An exchange of seats with Pierre Gasly made the number 23 share the team with Max Verstappen. However, Albon was replaced by Sergio Perez after a 2020 of poor results for the Thai.

“I probably had the opportunity to join a top team before I was ready for it.. Now I have a different project before me: to move this team forward, and it’s not that I don’t enjoy this challenge,” says the London-born driver.