Williams aim to give Albon more “consistent” car after consecutive Q1 exits

Alexander Albon is the leading points-scorer among the midfield teams but his form appears to have dipped in recent races.

He lies eighth in the championship on 73 points but has scored just three over the last four rounds, all of which came in the Austin sprint race where several drivers ahead of him retired at the start. Last weekend Albon was eliminated in Q1 for the second time in as many grand prix.

Williams team principal James Vowles admitted the team were “on the back foot” with Albon in Mexico. However he said they had gleaned useful information from the sister car of Carlos Sainz Jnr which they will use to give Albon a better set-up in the future.

“That weekend, we weren’t there in terms of getting the tyres absolutely where they’re nailed to be,” said Vowles in a video released by the team. “And I don’t think we were quite right on the set-up as well – the correspondence between basic car set-up and how we use our differential and other tools as well.

“Irrespective, what it has given us is a good pathway for what we can be doing in Brazil and going forward. So through failure, I think actually we found a pathway on how to operate the car with a combination of Carlos and Alex’s data.”

“We haven’t had the car quite together,” he added. “We had small little issues that have all been adding up, and not quite being there on tyre temperatures in Mexico. Now, we will bring that together. There’s quite a bit of learning lessons [we’ve done].”

The biggest change Williams need to make for Albon is giving him a car which is more drive-able, said Vowles.

“There’s a set-up direction that we now know we need to be taking from Brazil onwards, which is more similar to where Carlos is, but it’s just making sure the car’s more together for him,” he explained. “So it’s a good platform to build from. Perhaps it’s not the fastest car to the millisecond, but a consistent platform to work from.”

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