When Carlos Sainz announced his move to Williams for 2025, Autosport described the pairing of him with Alex Albon as Formula 1’s most intriguing match up. And so it has proved, albeit not in a way that has always cast Sainz in a flattering light.
His first two race weekends for Williams were anything but smooth operations: Albon outqualified him to the tune of nearly three tenths (four grid positions in today’s money) in Australia, then he spun out of the race caught out by an operational quirk of the car while running in Safety Car mode.
