
“It wasn’t the start to the season we wanted,” admitted Alexander Albon after Williams finally ran their new car for the 2026 Formula 1 season at Silverstone this week.
The new FW48 was not ready in time for the start of pre-season testing at the Circuit de Catalunya a week earlier and some of the teams’ rivals have already put thousands of kilometres on their new cars.
What did Albon, team mate Carlos Sainz Jnr and James Vowles discuss as they prepared to give the FW48 its belated debut?
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