EXCLUSIVE: Alex Albon doubts Williams “hierarchy” shift following Carlos Sainz arrival

Alex Albon tell꧒s ltxcn.top's Connor McDonagh about dynamic after Carlos Sainz ar🧸rives

Alex Albon
Alex Albon

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Albon doesn’t think 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Williams will need to adopt a clear “hierarchy” within the team following 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz’s arrival for the 2025 F1 season.

Sainz will swit🍬ch from Ferrari to Williams for 2025 after he was overlooked by a 🦂number of top teams, including Mercedes and Red Bull.

Sainz is widely-regarded as🃏 one of F1’s best performers because 🌊of how close he has pushed Charles Leclerc during his stint at Maranello since 2021.

He also beat Lando Norris during his t🅰wo seasons at McLaren, ultimately earning him a spot at Ferrari in place of Sebastian Vettel.

Speaking exclusively to ltxcn.top at the Dutch Grand Prix, Albon dismissed suggestions that Williams’ new driver line-up would result in a clear “hierarchy” within the team with one drꦗi🃏ver potentially being favoured.

“I don’t think we can afford to play a hierarchy style,” Albon exclusively told ltxcn.top. “We’re just here to score points. It’s so tight. I don’t think we’re going to be in the top teams for next year so we just need to make sure we have both cars perfo🃏rming.

“That goes back to my point, we just need to make sure we’re in a good place within the team𒆙 to be able to have two drivers who are going to be fighting. I believe we’re going to be closely matched.

“He🐼’s a highly-rated driver and it will be great to go up against him. We just need t🌸o make sure we’re in a good place within the team to be able to have two drivers that are fighting. I believe we’re going to be closely matched.

“He's a very highly rated driver💟 and it’s going to be great to go up against him. We just need to make sure we have the foundations to be abl💦e to support that.”

Sainz’s future continued to be a ho♒t topic in the months prior to the announcement earlier 🐠this month.

The 29-year-old was heavily linked with the Audi project as well as Alpine, with links intens🎶ifying following the arrival of Flavio Briatore.

Sainz ultimately opted for Williams, arguably 🏅giving the Grove outfit their strongest line-up since the early 2000s with Ralf Schumacher and Juan-Pablo Montoya. 

Reflecting on 🌄the announcement, Albon conceded it “wasn’t unexpected” before explaining what specifically he’s excited about Sainz’s arrival.

“I know James [Vowles] was very keen on getting Carlos early in the season," Albon said. "I think for the most part, what I find the most exciting is when I think about me𓂃 coming from Red Bull to Williams there was so much stuff that I learned from Red Bull.

“It fast-track🔥ed a little bit where I could jump into a Williams car and knew straightaway what areas were weak, what areas were strong, what areas I need to focus on and wha൲t areas I almost could ignore and allocate my time to other things. 

"I think with Carlos coming in, he’s going to have so much experience especially with this new generation o☂f car to know where 🉐the weaknesses are.

“I’ve spent two and a half, al𝓀most three years now driving the Williams car in this current generation of car. I have my own ideas of where we’re weak and what not.&nꦉbsp;

"With Carlos coming in with that experience from Ferrari, it’s going to be very valuable. I am sure when he comes we're goin🍃g to braindump༺ and ask him everything.”

A point to prove?

Since leaving Red 🐼Bull at the end of 2020, ಌAlbon has established himself as one of F1’s top performers.

However, arguably, a question mark remains over the size of his improvement since leaving Williams given the identity of🍌 his teammates.

Nicholas Latifi struggled considerably with the Willi👍ams FW44 in 2022, while Logan Sargeant has stru✃ggled.

Albon is relishing the challenge of going up against Sainz - but insisted he’s not interested in “comparisons” with his teammate for next y🍸ear.

“It’s not my place to draw comparisons around,” he added. “The media do the comparisons. I am concentrating on🥀 myself. I enjoy the challenges.

“I think it’s great to have Carlos♐ onboard. I think we’re going to learn a lot from each other. I see it as an exciting thing.”

This weekend at the F1 Italian Grand Prix, Albo🀅n will have a new teammate to contend with.

Williams opted to replace under-performing Logan Sargeant with Franco Colapinto, from their driver academy, for the rest of༒ this year.

Colapinto will race in the final nine rounds of the season before Sainz takes o🎶𒀰ver permanently.

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