Williams want to boost their recreation for subsequent season when Carlos Sainz Jnr arrives, says his future workforce mate Alexander Albon.
The FW46s raced by Albon and present workforce mate Logan Sargeant have different in specification for a lot of the season because the workforce fell not on time in the course of the low season then suffered a scarcity of spare elements following a sequence of crashes.
Albon welcomed the information of Sainz’s transfer, saying he believes “having a prime driver from a prime workforce brings loads to Williams.”
“We want that have and we’d like that velocity as nicely,” he mentioned, “I don’t know Carlos in addition to I do different drivers, however we hit it off. I like to go up towards prime drivers and I really feel like we’ll have an important partnership. I feel we’re going to be taught from one another.
“Additionally, Carlos’ expertise will assist carry the workforce up. Clearly I’ve been in Williams for a number of years now, so to have that totally different standpoint about issues can solely assist us.”
Nevertheless he foresees “a giant problem” for Williams in assembly the expectations of a driver like Sainz, who will be a part of them from Ferrari and beforehand raced for McLaren.
“I feel for us, we’d like to have the ability to present two automobiles now which can be equal in efficiency,” he instructed the official F1 channel. “So it’s a giant job – we are able to’t have a season like we’ve simply had this yr and we’d like to verify we repair that for subsequent yr.”
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Albon mentioned he expects he and Sainz could have parity on tools on the workforce subsequent yr however harassed “we have to up our recreation – we don’t go need to by way of one other yr like we did this yr, and that’s it actually.”
“As a workforce, Carlos approaching board, he’s going to encourage the entire employees,” Albon added. “You noticed the response that the workforce had when he got here on board, when he acquired introduced. So I see it as an important factor.
“Additionally simply his expertise as nicely, you’ll be able to’t underestimate the worth it’s going to carry simply when it comes to what he is aware of at Ferrari, the best way the automobile feels in comparison with our automobile. I’ll be listening in fairly intently as nicely simply to see the place our are weaknesses and whatnot.
“Clearly I’ve my concepts of what they’re, however coming from a unique automobile, you actually get a unique perspective. So it’ll be superb.”
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