Now leaving Azerbaijan with a further 10 factors, they’ve leapfrogged Alpine into eighth place within the constructors’ standings with seven races remaining. Albon additionally matched his greatest race end with Williams, briefly operating in P3 round Baku earlier than he boxed to vary tyres.
“It was really surprising for us to be in that form of awkward place the place we had been within the combine with the leaders,” he mentioned. “Clearly we didn’t pit but however we had been shedding a number of race time due to all of the combating that was occurring round me.
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“I didn’t anticipate it, we didn’t anticipate it, we thought we might have fairly a easy race. I didn’t actually know the place my race was, I didn’t know the place I used to be going to come back out, it was all a little bit bit unknown. Truthfully, we had been okay within the second stint, I believed I might get Fernando [Alonso] however he had an excellent finish to his race, he was fast on the finish so didn’t fairly get him.”
Albon added that the staff discovered their spectacular efficiency to be “a real shock” however it demonstrated that “the bundle is working effectively” going into the ultimate a part of the season.
