Motor Racing-Albon Hopes Williams Hit The Floor Jogging, If Not Operating

Williams have ironed out a lot of final 12 months’s issues however should still take time to hit their stride when the Method One season begins in Bahrain subsequent week, Thai driver Alex Albon mentioned on Thursday.

The previous champions moved up from final to seventh final 12 months and have overhauled their automobile as they search to construct on their enchancment.

“We have now fastened a variety of the issue areas from final 12 months however there’s some new issues we now have to iron out. A part of the educational curve however it’s going nicely to this point,” Albon advised reporters throughout testing in Bahrain.

“It’s tough to place an absolute quantity on it. What’s clear is it’s going to take some time to get there,” he added of the development.

“It’s a completely completely different automobile to know. I don’t assume we’re going to hit the bottom working however we will hit the bottom jogging and have a great few races hopefully.”

Williams had a troublesome first day in Bahrain on Wednesday with Albon doing 40 laps and U.S. workforce mate Logan Sargeant solely 21 as a consequence of a gasoline pump failure and driveshaft drawback respectively.

Thursday proved far more constructive, with Sargeant overlaying 117 laps.

“We nonetheless had a few points all through the day,” the American advised F1 TV.

“Typically a constructive day. We made good headway in the precise path. We all know the path we have to maintain heading in… there’s loads of issues we nonetheless want to repair.”

The American mentioned he was nonetheless preventing the automobile greater than he would really like.

“It’s nonetheless a great automobile, we simply have to iron out the main points, get the stability in a barely higher place however we now have loads of concepts and methods.”

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