Ex-Ferrari insider hails midfield F1 star: “There were lots of question marks”
One F1 star has impressed ex-Feꦉrrari engineer Rob Smedley.
Ex-Ferrari engineer Rob Smedley has praised 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alex Albon for his strong start to the 2025 F1 season afte🐻r there were “lots of question mark🍷s” about his form.
After being dropped by Red Bull at the end of 2020, Albon spent the following year on the sidelines before returning to F1 with Williams full-time.
Albon has slowly rebuilt his reputationꦅ at the Grove-based outfit.
However, question marks remained regarꦚding his ultimate level of performance, given the identity of his previous teammates.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Nicholas Latifi and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Logan Sargeant proved to be weak competition.
Immediately, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Franco Colapinto proved to be🍌 a sterner test, leading to concerns about how good Albon is.
Albon has batted away any questions over his level in F1, out-performing new teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Carlos Sainz.
Albon has𒀰 scored 30 points in the opening six rounds,𝓰 putting him an impressive eighth in the F1 drivers’ championship.
Smedley, who was Felipe Massa’s raceꦐ engineer from 2006 to 2013, believes Albon has now silenced any critics.
“I also think it’s down to the fact that they’ve now got two very good drivers. Alex Albon, there were lots of question marks ❀from the sidelines about ‘how good was Alex?’,” Smedley said on the F1 Nation Podcast.
“Becauseඣ since he got demoted from the Red Bull team, how good were the drivers that he was put up against and how good were the drivers that he was put up against in Williams, especially at the start of his journey.
“That’s now been answere♊d with Carlos, right? Alex is a very good driver, Alex has got his feet under the table. We know how good Carlos is, for me, Carlos is one of the best all-round drivers on the grid, he’s definitely a guy, in a top car, could win a world championship.”
Albon “in the form of his life”
Legendary F1 commentator Martin 🐭Brundle has also noticed Albon’s impressiveღ performances in 2025.
following the Miami Grand Prix.
Albon finished fifth൲ in Miami, beating Kimi Antonꦇelli, Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton.
It meant that Williams had the fourth-fastest ca�🅠�r on merit in Miami.
Williams have scored 37 points in the opening six rounds, m🅘aking it their b😼est start to a year since 2017.
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