{"id":19015,"date":"2020-12-05T00:33:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T00:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uat.motorsportmagazine.com\/database\/drivers\/alexander-albon\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T14:52:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T14:52:28","slug":"alexander-albon","status":"publish","type":"driver","link":"https:\/\/uat.motorsportmagazine.com\/database\/drivers\/alexander-albon\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Albon"},"content":{"rendered":"    \n<section class=\"hero hero--small-image\">\n    \n            \n<section class=\"c-site-breadcrumbs site-breadcrumbs proxima \">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <nav class=\"breadcrumbs\"><span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/uat.motorsportmagazine.com\/database\/\">Home<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/nav>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n    \n    <div class=\"hero__content\">\n        <div class=\"container\">\n                            <div class=\"circular-image\">\n                                            <picture>\n            <source type=\"image\/jpeg\" srcset=\"\" >\n            <img decoding=\"async\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Alex Albon block\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/uat.motorsportmagazine.com\/database\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/Alex-Albon-block-200x200.jpg\" srcset=\"\"  loading=\"lazy\"  \/>\n        <\/picture>\n                                    <\/div>\n                        <h1 class=\"hero__title sanomat\"><\/h1>\n                                <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"anchor-menu container-no-breakpoints proxima\">\n    <ul>\n                    <li><a href=\"#biography\" data-behaviour=\"scroll-to\">Biography<\/a><\/li>\n                    <li><a href=\"#championship-seasons\" data-behaviour=\"scroll-to\">Championship Seasons<\/a><\/li>\n                    <li><a href=\"#non-championship-races\" data-behaviour=\"scroll-to\">Non-Championship Races<\/a><\/li>\n                    <li><a href=\"#teams\" data-behaviour=\"scroll-to\">Teams<\/a><\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n<\/section>\n\n<div class=\"container\" id=\"biography\">\n            <div class=\"post__item\">\n                <div class=\"js-react\" data-behaviour=\"driver-data-box\" data-driver-id=\"19015\"><\/div>\n                <\/div>\n        <aside class=\"sidebar\" data-target=\"ad-container\">\n            <aside class=\"broadcast-space \">\n            <div class=\"broadcast-space__element\" id=\"div-gpt-ad-1563288058060-3\" data-behaviour=\"ad-target\"><\/div>\n    <\/aside>\n\n        <\/aside>\n    <\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\" id=\"full-biography\">\n    \n        \n        <section class=\"c-expanding-content expanding-content user-content expanding-content--expandable content-section toggle\">\n            <p>Alexander Albon returned to the Formula 1 grid in 2022 after a rollercoaster few seasons in grand prix racing. He was the revelation of 2019 in his first Formula 1 season but struggled to repeat his form in 2020 with Red Bull.<\/p>\n<p>This ultimately lead to a demotion to reserve driver for 2021, with Red Bull Young Driver guru Helmut Marko saying Albon was &#8220;not consistent enough&#8221; and therefore costing the Milton Keynes squad in the championship.<\/p>\n<p>Albon was given a DTM ride for 2021 by Red Bull to keep his racing instincts sharp, and won at the N\u00fcrburgring, shortly before his Williams F1 contract for 2022 was announced.<\/p>\n<p>The son of former British Touring Car Championship driver Nigel Albon and a Thai mother, he races under the latter national licence.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Early career in karts and cars<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The eight-year-old Albon began racing karts in 2005 and he won the following year\u2019s Kartmasters British Grand Prix. Super 1 Champion that year, he completed his karting career by finishing as runner-up in the 2011 CIK-FIA World Championship.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the Red Bull driver programme, he graduated to car racing in Formula Renault 2.0 in 2012 with EPIC Racing. He qualified second and finished fifth in an ALPS race at Spielberg, but Albon lost the energy drink manufacturers\u2019 backing after a difficult campaign. He switched to KTR for the next two seasons in the category and scored his breakthrough victory in a Northern European Cup (NEC) race at Most during 2014.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>European Formula 3 and GP3<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Despite the lack of apparent success so far, Albon joined Signature for the 2015 European Formula 3 Championship and scored five podium finishes \u2013 including second-place finishes at the Norisring, Portim\u00e3o and Hockenheim to claim seventh in the final standings.<\/p>\n<p>He switched to the F1-support GP3 Series in 2016 with the crack ART Grand Prix. It was Albon\u2019s most impressive season so far, and he won four times to finish as runner-up behind team-mate Charles Leclerc.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Formula 2<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>He remained with ART for the 2017 Formula 2 Championship but missed the round at Baku when he broke his collarbone in a mountain biking accident. He returned to finish second in the sprint race at Spielberg. Still in pain from his injuries and struggling to optimise his set-up, Albon\u2019s form dipped from mid-season. However, he completed the year by finishing second in the \u201creverse grid\u201d sprint race in Abu Dhabi \u2013 losing his breakthrough victory when passed on the last lap by a forceful Leclerc.<\/p>\n\n                            <div class=\"expanding-content__buttons\">\n                                            <a href=\"#\" class=\"button button--outline button--chevron-down expanding-content__more\" data-behaviour=\"toggle\">Read full bio<\/a>\n                        <a href=\"#\" class=\"button button--outline button--chevron-up expanding-content__less\" data-behaviour=\"toggle\">Read Less<\/a>\n                                    <\/div>\n                    <\/section>\n\n                                \n   <\/div>\n\n<section class=\"c-content-article content-article content-section\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"content-article__grid\">\n            <div class=\"content-article__article\">\n                <h2 class=\"title sanomat\">Related article<\/h2>\n                                    <div\n                        data-behaviour=\"tag-automation\"\n                        data-automation-type=\"related-article\"\n                        data-tags=\"[&quot;Alexander Albon&quot;]\"\n                        data-current-post=\"19015\"><\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"content-article__content user-content\">\n                <p>He agreed a race-by-race deal with DAMS for the 2018 F2 season that re-established his credentials. He converted pole position into Feature race victory on the streets of Baku and was quickest in qualifying for the next two rounds. Further victories at Silverstone, Hungaroring and Sochi saw Albon enter the final weekend second to George Russell in the points. Third overall after stalling at the start of the Feature race in Abu Dhabi, he signed to race for Nissan in the 2018\/19 Formula E Championship.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Surprise Formula 1 graduation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was a surprise when former backers Red Bull chose Albon to replace Pierre Gasly at Scuderia Toro Rosso for the 2019 World Championship. Release from the Nissan eDAMS Formula E contract was negotiated and Albon scored five top 10 finishes (including sixth in Germany) in the first 12 races. With Gasly struggling in the senior Red Bull squad, they swapped drives and Albon continued to impress. He finished eight of the remaining nine races in the top six with fourth in Japan his best result so far. The exception was in Brazil where a first podium was lost when hit by the recovering Mercedes-Benz of Lewis Hamilton in the closing laps.<\/p>\n<p>Eighth in the 2019 F1 World Championship was good enough for him to be the highest-placed rookie. Unfortunately, 2020 was not a repeat for Albon as he struggled to keep pace with his team-mate Max Verstappen. He had a chance in the first race of the season to secure his maiden podium, but contact with Hamilton once again took him out of contention in the final laps. Poor qualifying and race performances followed, and it took until the Tuscan Grand Prix for Albon to secure his first podium finish.<\/p>\n<p>More poor results followed and rumours swirled over a potential demotion from Red Bull, as other drivers like Gasly and Sergio Perez continued to put in great performances throughout the season. Another podium followed in Bahrain at the third-to-last race, but the writing was very much on the wall as Perez secured his maiden F1 win the following week at the Sakhir GP. Albon was dropped at the end of the season and has been fulfilling reserve driver duty in 2021 for Red Bull as Perez takes his seat.<\/p>\n<p>Albon competed in the DTM series during 2021 with backing from Red Bull when his reserve duties didn&#8217;t clash with racing. He finished the season sixth in the standings with a single win to his name.<\/p>\n<p><strong>F1 return with Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During the 2021 season Albon was announced as the replacement for George Russell at Williams for the 2022 season, with the latter moving on to Mercedes. The Thai driver proved to be a worthy investment, outperforming whatever car the British-based manufacture could provide. He showed early promise in Australia, racing for 56 laps on the same set of hard compound tyres to finish 10th, beating the likes of Zhou Guanyu and Yuki Tsunoda. Positive performances followed in Miami, where he scored another two championship points despite starting the race in 18th.<\/p>\n<p>Midway through the 2022 campaign, Albon was suddenly admitted to hospital, suffering from suspected appendicitis. But due to complications during surgery, the Thai driver was rushed to an intensive care unit, where he stayed over night. Thankfully, Albon made a full recovery but was unable to compete in the Italian Grand Prix, instead making his return at Zandvoort where he finished a brilliant 12th.<\/p>\n<p>Despite finishing 18th in the drivers&#8217; standings by the end of the season, Williams and team principal Jost Capito recognised the enormous talent that Albon had to offer, signing him to a multi-year deal that should keep him in F1 until 2024.<\/p>\n<p>However, prior to the 2023 campaign, it was all change in the Williams camp.<\/p>\n<p>Capito was replaced as team principal by former Mercedes head strategist James Vowles, who looked to restore a sense of order to the Grove outfit \u2014 with Albon central to his plans.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a rocky start to the season, which included failing to finish two out of the first three races, the Thai driver soon found form, finishing a brilliant seventh in Canada, eighth at Silverstone and Zandvoort, and seventh again at Monza.<\/p>\n<p>Further point-scoring finishes came in Qatar, Austin and Mexico City and ultimately resulted in Williams securing seventh in the constructors standings \u2014 Albon having scored all 27 of the team&#8217;s points.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, Albon&#8217;s luck took a nosedive as he failed to finish seven races and scored just 12 points. But the Thai driver still remains a key part of Williams&#8217; future. He penned another long-term deal with the Grove outfit midway through the 2024 season \u2014 keeping him with the team until at least 2026 \u2014 and will partner Carlos Sainz to form a fearsome driver duo in 2025.<\/p>\n\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"content-section content-section--no-padding-bottom database-table-collapsible toggle open\" id=\"championship-seasons\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"js-react\" data-behaviour=\"driver-seasons-table\" data-driver-id=\"\"><\/div>            <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"content-section content-section--no-padding database-table-collapsible toggle open\" id=\"non-championship-races\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        \n<header class=\"content-header content-header--alt\">\n\n    <h2 class=\"content-header__small-title sanomat u-bold \">\n                Non Championship Races\n    <\/h2>\n\n    <div class=\"content-header__dropdown database-table-collapsible__toggles proxima\">\n        <a href=\"#\" class=\"database-table-collapsible__more\" data-behaviour=\"toggle\">Show<\/a>\n        <a href=\"#\" class=\"database-table-collapsible__less\" data-behaviour=\"toggle\">Hide<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/header><div class=\"js-react\" data-behaviour=\"driver-races-table\" data-driver-id=\"\"><\/div>            <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"content-section content-section--no-padding database-table-collapsible toggle open\" id=\"teams\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        \n<header class=\"content-header content-header--alt\">\n\n    <h2 class=\"content-header__small-title sanomat u-bold \">\n                Teams\n    <\/h2>\n\n    <div class=\"content-header__dropdown database-table-collapsible__toggles proxima\">\n        <a href=\"#\" class=\"database-table-collapsible__more\" data-behaviour=\"toggle\">Show<\/a>\n        <a href=\"#\" class=\"database-table-collapsible__less\" data-behaviour=\"toggle\">Hide<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/header><div class=\"js-react\" data-behaviour=\"driver-teams-table\" data-driver-id=\"\"><\/div>            <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n                            <section class=\"c-broadcast-space content-section block_81d4637712981c4a6b57219e9f435c53_leaderboardtop div-gpt-ad-1563288058060-1\" data-target=\"ad-container\">\n            <div class=\"container container--full-mobile\">\n                <aside class=\"broadcast-space \">\n            <div class=\"broadcast-space__element\" id=\"div-gpt-ad-1563288058060-1\" data-behaviour=\"ad-target\"><\/div>\n    <\/aside>\n\n            <\/div>\n        <\/section>\n    \n\n    <section\n        class=\"c-latest-products latest-products content-section\"\n        data-behaviour=\"tag-automation\"\n        data-automation-type=\"related-products\"\n        data-tags=\"[&quot;Alexander Albon&quot;]\"\n        data-current-post=\"19015\"><\/section>\n\n\n        <section class=\"c-article-listing article-listing content-section\">\n        <div class=\"container\">\n            <header class=\"content-header\">\n    <div class=\"content-header__intro user-content\">\n        <h1 class=\"content-header__title sanomat\">Related articles<\/h1>\n            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"content-header__button\">\n            <a class=\"button button--outline button--full\"\n               href=\"https:\/\/uat.motorsportmagazine.com\">\n                View all\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"content-section__inner-content container\">\n            <div class=\"article-grid article-grid--no-ads\">\n                <div class=\"article-grid__wrapper\">\n                    <div class=\"article-grid__nested-grid\">\n                        <div class=\"article-grid__column\">\n                                                            \n\t\n\n<article class=\"article-item \">\n\n\t\n\t\t<a class=\"article-item__link \" href=\"https:\/\/uat.motorsportmagazine.com\/articles\/single-seaters\/f1\/mph-how-fia-can-intervene-immediately-over-trick-mercedes-f1-engine\/\">\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"article-item__image article-item__image--cropped\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<picture>\n            <source type=\"image\/jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uat.motorsportmagazine.com\/database\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20240526F1-0028-450x253.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" height=\"253\" width=\"450\" alt=\"MPH: How FIA can intervene immediately over &#8216;trick&#8217; 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