Alex Albon

Thai and British racing driver

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2025 Finishes in twelfth place in the Bahrain Grand Prix.
2025 Albon finished seventh in a race after disqualifications of Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton.
2025 Albon qualified sixth and finished fifth in a rain-affected race.
2025 Achieved a points finish with ninth place in the Japanese Grand Prix.
2025 Alex Albon is partnered with Carlos Sainz Jr. at Williams Racing Formula One team.
2024 Raced in Formula One with Williams Racing, competing in 24 races and finishing 16th in the championship.
2024 Albon finished the season 16th in the Drivers' Championship with 12 points.
2024 At the Italian Grand Prix (Monza), Albon scored Williams' third points finish by taking 9th place.
2024 At the Monaco Grand Prix, Albon qualified 9th and finished in 9th place, scoring Williams' first points of the season.
2024 During the Singapore Grand Prix, Albon benefitted from a late crash between Sergio Pérez and Carlos Sainz Jr., finishing seventh and helping Williams overtake Alpine in the World Constructors' Championship.
2024 Alex Albon continued racing with Williams alongside Logan Sargeant, experiencing engine overheating issues in the season-opening race.
2024 At the British Grand Prix, Albon finished 9th, earning his second points finish of the season.
May 15 2024 Williams confirmed Albon's multi-year contract extension with the team.
2023 At a Grand Prix, Albon qualified sixth and finished seventh, defending against Lando Norris.
2023 Albon ended the season thirteenth in the Drivers' Championship, scoring 27 points and helping Williams secure seventh place in the Constructors' Championship.
2023 At a Grand Prix, Albon qualified eighth and ran as high as sixth before crashing heavily on lap six.
2023 At the Bahrain Grand Prix, Albon qualified fifteenth and scored a point by finishing tenth.
2023 Albon was retained by Williams on a multi-year contract, partnering Logan Sargeant and ending his Red Bull affiliation.
2023 At a Grand Prix, Albon was eliminated in a first-corner collision with Kevin Magnussen after starting thirteenth.
2023 At an unspecified Grand Prix, Albon retired due to a brake failure.
2023 At the United States Grand Prix, Albon qualified fourth, recovered from fifteenth to finish eighth during a rain shower.
2023 At a sprint race, Albon started seventeenth, gained ten places, and finished seventh scoring points.
2023 At a Grand Prix, Albon started ninth and finished seventh, his best result for Williams, receiving praise from Red Bull team principal Christian Horner.
2023 At the United States and Mexico City Grands Prix, Albon finished ninth in both races after starting outside the top ten.
2022 Albon scored his first point for Williams by finishing tenth, having started the race from last place and making his mandatory pit stop with one lap remaining.
2022 At the Belgian Grand Prix, Albon reached Q3 for the first time with Williams, qualifying ninth and finishing tenth to score a point.
2022 At the Miami Grand Prix, Albon qualified eighteenth and was classified ninth, securing his second points score of the season.
2022 In his first race for Williams, Albon out-qualified Latifi and finished thirteenth.
2022 At the British Grand Prix, Albon was involved in an opening lap crash and was hospitalised for precautionary checks, suffering no serious injuries.
2022 Albon ended the season nineteenth in the World Drivers' Championship, scoring 4 of Williams' 8 points.
2022 Albon retired from a race after colliding with the barriers and later retired on the opening lap of another race after a collision with Kevin Magnussen.
2022 Albon was forced to withdraw from an unspecified race due to appendicitis and was replaced by Nyck de Vries, later experiencing anaesthetic-related respiratory failure during surgery.
September 11 2022 Albon achieves his first Formula One podium finish at the 2022 Italian Grand Prix, securing a remarkable third place for Williams and marking a significant career milestone.
January 2022 Alex Albon rejoins Williams Racing as a Formula One driver after being dropped from Red Bull Racing, partnering Nicholas Latifi for the 2022 season.
2021 Replaced by Sergio Pérez at Red Bull Racing, subsequently becoming a reserve driver for Red Bull and AlphaTauri.
2021 Competed in Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters with AlphaTauri AF Corse, finishing 6th. Served as a Test/Reserve driver for Red Bull Racing Honda and Scuderia AlphaTauri.
October 2021 Took on a coaching role for AlphaTauri driver Yuki Tsunoda starting from the Turkish Grand Prix.
August 22 2021 Alex Albon won his maiden Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM) race at the Nürburgring, making history as the first Thai driver to achieve a victory in the series.
2020 Continued in Formula One with Aston Martin Red Bull Racing, finishing 7th in the championship.
2020 Finished seventh in the World Drivers' Championship, scoring 105 points.
2020 Took his maiden Formula One podium by overtaking Daniel Ricciardo in the closing laps, becoming the first Thai Formula One driver to achieve a podium.
2020 Led a race for the first time at a Grand Prix, finishing seventh.
2020 Took his second podium finish after Sergio Pérez retired, becoming the first Asian driver to score more than one podium finish.
December 2020 Finished fourth at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, pressuring Lewis Hamilton in the closing stages.
July 2020 At the season-opening race, Albon attempted to overtake Lewis Hamilton but made contact, sending him into the gravel and later retiring with an electrical failure.
2019 After a heavy crash in practice, started a race from the pit lane and recovered to finish tenth, winning the Driver Of The Day award.
2019 Albon finished a career-best fourth place in a Grand Prix, setting identical qualifying lap times with Verstappen.
2019 Started a race in sixteenth place and, taking advantage of changing weather conditions, finished sixth, behind teammate Kvyat who secured the team's first podium in over ten years.
2019 At a Grand Prix, Albon was in second place on the penultimate lap but was hit by Lewis Hamilton during an overtaking attempt, dropping to fourteenth place at the finish.
2019 Best qualifying result with Toro Rosso was ninth place, though he did not score points in that race.

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