Williams’ Thai driver Alexander Albon poses on the pink carpet upon arrival for the Components One – 2025 season launch ìF1 75 LIVEî occasion on the O2, in London, on February 18, 2025. (Photograph by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)
F1 constructor Williams introduced Tuesday it was extending the contract of driver Alex Albon for subsequent season.
The 30-year-old Thai completed eighth within the drivers’ standings final 12 months, securing Williams’ finest outcome since 2016.
Albon joined the British crew 4 years in the past and can now stick with them to the tip of 2027.
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“Alex is without doubt one of the finest drivers on the grid and is aware of higher than anybody the large enhancements we’ve got made in recent times,” Williams’ crew principal James Vowles mentioned in an announcement.
“Re-signing him exhibits the assumption we each have within the path we’re heading.”
The deal comes within the wake of Albon citing a century of race begins for Williams.
In interviews with AFP in February, Vowles said it was “not life like” for Williams to win the world championship this season or subsequent, earlier than Albon mentioned Williams had began the 2026 marketing campaign “on the again foot in comparison with our rivals”.
Nonetheless, in an announcement launched by Williams on Tuesday, Albon mentioned: “One robust 12 months doesn’t inform the complete image, and it solely provides me extra motivation to maintain constructing and pushing along with the manufacturing unit and our followers to attain nice issues.
“Our story isn’t over but, so my full focus now’s on doing no matter it takes to get us again up the grid.”
