After 2024's first seven rounds of the Formula 1 calendar, Williams was one of two teams yet to score a point; Alpine had broken its duck in Miami, leaving just the British squad and Sauber as those yet to register a top 10.
Alex Albon then got the team off the mark in Monaco with ninth, in a race spent tucked under Yuki Tsunoda's gearbox, as Williams continued to suffer the after-effects of building a FW46 that tipped the scales far beyond the minimum weight limit.
