Albon doubts Williams 'will stand a chance' in next F1 races

Alex Albon believes that Williams "won't really stand a chance" in F1's upcoming races despite the team's good display at the Italian Grand Prix.

Albon managed to secure a seventh-place finish at Monza after holding off McLaren's Lando Norris in a fight during the Williams charger made the most of his FW45's strong straight-line speed.

The excellent result allowed the Grove-based outfit to consolidate its P7 position in F1's Constructors' standings in which it now holds a ten-point advantage over Haas, with Alfa Romeo one point further adrift.

Although Albon acknowledged Williams' recent step froward, the Anglo-Thai racer is wary of F1's upcoming races where he fears that points will be hard to come by due to the inherent weakness of his FW45 on higher downforce tracks.

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"I think it's a good step," he said. "I worry about tracks like Brazil, this kind of races. But I hope we're in a better place now.

"We needed that, because I don't think the next few races, we're not really going to stand a chance until Vegas.

"Not to say that we're gonna take our foot off the pedal but... a good points finish here was what we needed."

A week before Monza, Albon's solid run to P8 at Zandvoort reflected the progress over the summer of Williams' contender on higher-downforce environments, suggesting that its performance in the following rounds at Singapore, Suzuka and Qatar could be better than expected.

"I think we still see our weaknesses, you know, we are low downforce," added Albon.

"We are better than we were last year, but especially when the track gets hot and the degradation is high we really struggle.

"And this was a race where we struggled, on a track that should suit us. I think if the track was 20 degrees cooler we would have been really fast, maybe.

"But still some work to do. We go to Asia now, it gets hot, go to America, it's kind of hot as well [there]."

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