Alex Albon is eyeing a first Formula 1 podium as a Williams driver in 2026, after a 2025 campaign that he described as “my best season yet”.
The Anglo-Thai driver has not scored a top-three finish since the 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix, during what was an ill-fated and short-lived stint with Red Bull.
Albon’s career was given a firm reset with his move to Williams in 2022, and has led the team through some difficult times with his constant stream of consistent performances.
But last year proved to be the team’s best in many years, with a fifth-place finished in the Constructors’ Championship, earned with the assistance of new team-mate Carlos Sainz.
The Spaniard scored two podiums, helping Williams to secure a status as the best midfield team, with Albon finishing seventh, just ahead of Sainz, in the Drivers’ title.
Albon conveyed his joy at the team’s extra steps taken in 2025, but with Sainz having put the Grove-based squad back on the rostrum for the first time in four years, Albon wants to replicate that feat.
“I’m just very proud of the team, because I feel like each year we’ve been making steps forward, but it just seems to be that things are starting to click now and as a team, as a unit, we seem to be dialling in,” he told media including Motorsport Week.
“The gap from P10 to P5 is smaller than the gap from P5 to P4. So we know that we’ve still got a long road ahead of us.
“But I’m hoping my podium chances come a little bit sooner rather than later.”
Alex Albon finding pleasure in ‘racing against top teams’ in 2025
Albon assessed his 2025 season highly, and labelled the team’s progression as the biggest its made in the four seasons he has been on its driver roster.
“I would say my best season yet, in many ways,” he explained.
“Obviously the car takes credit for most of that. I said it before, I haven’t changed so much my application into this year, but the car and what the guys and girls have done at the factory have made a huge step this year.
“I’ve been with this team for four years now and this has been clearly the biggest step out of the four years from year to year.
“It’s been enjoyable, been fun to be able to race against some of the top teams at certain tracks.
“Towards the end of the year, not ideal, but generally the pace has been strong.
“I’ve made a couple of mistakes, Vegas and Baku stand out to me, but then the other ones have just been just not going my way, kind of what it was like for Carlos at the beginning of the year.”
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