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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