Williams
Alex Albon, DNF
Alex Albon: "It just hasn't been my weekend overall. Bad luck again today - no hard feelings toward Oscar as I think he just misjudged the overtake. Sometimes these things happen and that’s just racing. We had good pace at the start of the race, the car felt more comfortable, and I think we would have been in the fight with the Alpines and on for decent points. Ultimately, we're just down on track time this season, and I need to get into a rhythm and have a smooth weekend. It will come. Monaco is usually a good track for us, and for me as a driver, so I'm looking forward to resetting and coming back stronger as a team with the start of the European season."
Carlos Sainz, 9th
“Mixed feelings today. I always enjoy driving in these conditions and feel like I can extract everything from the car. I took a risk and made the decision to start on the intermediates as I thought it was worth the gamble starting P15 and the conditions were a bit uncertain. The additional formation laps didn’t help, and unfortunately it clearly didn’t paid off today.
“However, once we switched to mediums, the second stint was super strong, and we were at times the quickest of the midfield. We made a good recovery but it would have been interesting to be in the fight with the three cars ahead. Anyway, more points for the team so happy on that front. Ultimately, we still need more pace to be fighting in the top eight on a regular basis, but we’re building some good momentum race by race.”
James Vowles, Team Principal
“Well done to Carlos, really great couple more points to our name, and what I'm really pleased to see is that across Miami and Montreal, we've added car performance and are able to get into a regular point scoring position. We didn't get it all right today, and I feel for Alex because he had the pace and from his position, there would have been points available to him as well. As always, we’ll review what we should have done differently and learn from our mistakes. The primary goal, however, is to keep adding car performance to make sure we keep fighting up the grid.”
