Now leaving Azerbaijan with 10 additional points, they have overtaken Alpine and moved into eighth place in the standings. classification of constructors With seven races remaining, Albon also equalled his best race result for Williams, briefly running in P3 in Baku before pitting for a new tyre.
“We weren’t really expecting it and we were in such an awkward situation where we were up against the leaders,” he said. “Obviously we hadn’t pitted yet, but we were losing a lot of race time because of all the fighting that was going on around me.”
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“I didn’t expect it, we didn’t expect it, we thought we would have a fairly easy race. I didn’t really know where my race was, I didn’t know where I was going to come out, everything was a bit unknown. Honestly, we were good in the second stint, I thought I could catch Fernando. [Alonso] But he had a great end of the race, he was fast at the end, so I couldn’t catch him.”
Albon added that the team considered his impressive performance “a real surprise” but showed that “the package is working well” heading into the final part of the season.