Alex Albon believes that starting alongside Williams team mate Carlos Sainz on the grid for the Miami Grand Prix means the team can «play with strategies» with the prospect of rain looming for Sunday’s race.
The Grove-based outfit secured its best qualifying result of the season in Miami as Sainz qualified sixth with Albon directly behind, marking the first time both Williams have started inside the top-seven this season.
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Despite the 2025 campaign being the first time together as team mates the pair have already worked strategically as a duo, most notably last time out in Saudi Arabia, with Sainz dropping back and allowing Albon to use DRS which in turn kept him ahead of the charging Isack Hadjar in the latter stages.
When asked about the prospects for the race, Albon said: «It’s going to be interesting. I think the good thing is we’ve got both cars next to each other, so we can play with strategies.
Albon believes he and Williams team mate Sainz can work together during the race
«It’s going to be a one-stop race most likely, we never know with the weather but it’s going to be interesting. I think realistically it’s going to be very hard to keep the Ferraris behind us so let’s see how it goes but I’m up for the challenge.»
Albon had finished fourth during Saturday’s Sprint in a chaotic wet-dry affair, but he was penalised and dropped down to 11th for failing to stay above the minimum time under Safety Car conditions.
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Sainz fared even worse having made contact with the barrier which forced him into retirement after returning to the pits before bouncing back in Qualifying.
«We pressed the reset button really well for this quali, there’s still the whole weekend ahead of us and we managed to put together, honestly my best lap in a Williams in quali, only three tenths off pole,» he said.
«I think it must have been a good lap because to be only three tenths away from pole has to be a good job. Very happy, very proud, things are going well and a very good position to start tomorrow.»
He added: «Whatever comes I think I will be on the pace it’s just a matter of getting all the operational and all the driving together like we did in quali. We had a clean quali and you see the performance and the lap time is there. We just need to nail those two things.»
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