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 working in P3 round Baku earlier than he boxed to vary tyres.
“It was really sudden for us to be in that sort of awkward place the place we have been within the combine with the leaders,” he mentioned. “Clearly we didn’t pit but however we have been dropping plenty of race time due to all of the preventing that was occurring round me.
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“I didn’t count on it, we didn’t count on 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 bit of bit unknown. Truthfully, we have been okay within the second stint, I believed I may 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 crew discovered their spectacular efficiency to be “a real shock” but it surely demonstrated that “the package deal is working effectively” going into the ultimate a part of the season.