Alex Albon says he learned to live with no regrets after going through the “darkest moment” of 🦹his career when he 🃏was dropped from the Red Bull Formula 1 team’s young driver programme.

The British-born Thai driver recovered from losing his Red Bull backing in 2012 due to po💝or performance to earn a second chance with the energy drinks company last year, seven years after initially being dropped.

Albon immediately impressed having been given his break b☂y Toro Rosso despജite having no previous experience in F1 machinery, and sensationally found himself promoted to Red Bull after just 12 grands prix - replacing the underperforming Pierre Gasly.

He went on to record eight top-six finishes from his nine-race spell at Red Bull and was subsequently rewarded by bein🍸g retain🦋ed for a full season with the Milton Keynes squad in 2020.

“[Those experiences] gave me a feeling that I’ve been through the worst and I’🦩m always able to come out the other side,” Albon told the official Formula 1 website.

“There’s a sense that I don’t feel too much pressure꧒, because I feel I survived that, I can survive other things💃.

“I carry that with me, with a lot of things that I go to. Even the call up from Toro Rosso to Red Bull, there’s a sense of, if it ꦫdoesn’t work out, so what? There are no regrets.

‘You’ve do🍬ne it before, you’ve pulled it through so why can’t you do it again? It’s made me a lot stronger.”

Albon concedes he has improvements to 🥀make heading into his sophomore F1 campaign with Red Bull but is confident he is in a good position to close the gap to teammate Max Verstappen this year.

“My side of the garage is relatively new,” he explaine෴d.

“It’s a relationship which needs building. It’s only been six or seven months we’ve been tog🍌e🎉ther, so it’s still learning, it’s still new.

“We sat together and 𒁃developed areas I need to work on, established where we want to be in our goals, and that makes it clear for all of us. It feels really good.

“I know what I need to work on, but also, there’s knowing it, but then there is understanding wha💫t to do and how to get the most out of the situation.

“We have some idea⛎s of what we need to target to get the car and myself in a better wi💛ndow.”