Alex Albon and Franco Colapinto had been left to rue one other difficult weekend for Williams on the Las Vegas Grand Prix, with Albon acknowledging that the workforce are having a “horrible, horrible time of it” just lately as they once more walked away with no factors.
Saturday evening’s race had initially began in promising model for Albon because the Thai driver made positive factors from his P17 grid slot, placing him within the battle for factors following the primary spherical of pit stops.
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However that cost got here to a halt when he was pressured to retire the automotive on Lap 25 of fifty owing to a suspected energy unit challenge, persevering with a troublesome run of weekends for the Williams squad who’ve failed to attain a degree – in addition to going through a number of heavy crashes – throughout the previous three occasions.
“It’s irritating,” Albon conceded after his early exit from the race. “I really feel like we’ve had a horrible, horrible time of it as of late. It’s simply irritating. I used to be excited in regards to the race, I felt like [we could score] nice factors hopefully.
“[I thought we could] repay the workforce – particularly the mechanics and everybody on the manufacturing unit – for all of the onerous work we’ve been going by way of over the previous couple of weeks, and it might have been nice to repay them, nevertheless it wasn’t meant to be. One other one so as to add to the listing, so hopefully we will bounce again stronger in Qatar.”
