Alexander Albon

Albon will replace Pierre Gasly alongside Max Verstappen in the Red Bull line-up from the Belgian Grand Prix, as Red Bull wants to evaluate Albon for a potential full-time seat at the senior team in 2020 following Gasly’s troubled graduation from Toro Rosso this year.<br><br>Read Also:<br><br>Red Bull's line-up dramas show Sainz dodged a bullet<br>Why Red Bull is risking two careers with latest ...

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Gasly was drafted into the primary Red Bull line-up as a replacement for Daniel Ricciardo for 2019, having impressed in his first full season in F1 with Toro Rosso the year before.<br>However, the Frenchman has struggled badly alongside Max Verstappen over the first half of the season, scoring 63 points and no podiums to the Dutchman's 181 points and two wins.<br><br>Read Also:<br><br>Albon admits ...

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The Racing Point and Toro Rosso drivers came together at the Hungaroring's first corner in the closing stages of the race, which was won by Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton.<br>Albon was able to get by and went on to take his second top 10 finish in two races, but Perez later complained that Albon "crashed into me".<br><br>Read Also:<br><br>Bottas irked by "completely unnecessary" Leclerc ...

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The Toro Rosso driver lost control of his car at the start of FP2 when he touched the grass at the exit of the final corner as he prepared to start his first flying lap of the session.<br>Albon spun and his STR14 impacted heavily against the tyre barriers, causing heavy damage to the left side of the car.<br>The Thai driver finished at the bottom of the charts without a time set.<br>Asked by ...

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The Toro Rosso driver stayed out of trouble during the chaotic middle part of the race to run fifth, which became fourth when Renault’s Nico Hulkenberg spun off on lap 40 of 64, bringing out the safety car.<br>At that point Albon was nearly 10 seconds behind third-placed Hamilton, but the caution period brought them together, and also enabled the McLaren of Carlos Sainz to close onto Albon’s ...

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Albon was among the first drivers to make a schedule stop, on lap 13 of 52, and he spent most of the Silverstone race inside the top 10 after making it into Q3 for the second time this season. <br>However, he dropped out of the points with two laps left after completing 39 laps on the same set of tyres, because a voltage concern meant Toro Rosso and Honda decided not to risk pitting him.<br>Since ...

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The Thai driver had already been consigned to the back of the grid, in company with Carlos Sainz, as a consequence of penalties incurred yesterday.<br>For FP1 Albon took the latest Spec 3 PU, which entailed a new V6, turbo, MGU-H and MGU-K. Today he took new Spec 3 examples of each of those.<br>The way the system works the V6 and MGU-K that he used yesterday cannot stay in the pool and be used ...

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Honda introduced its Spec 3 engine last weekend but split its use across the two Toro Rosso drivers to avoid that team suffering grid drops for both cars at Paul Ricard.<br><br>Read Also:<br><br>Honda in tactical move to break seals on Kvyat's power unit<br><br><br>Albon will move onto the new power unit at the Red Bull Ring, which means taking advantage of an upgraded combustion engine and ...

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The penalty will drop Sainz from ninth on the grid to 12th.<br>It was prompted by an incident in Q1 in which Sainz blocked Albon's Toro Rosso through Turns 1 and 2, just after Albon had let the McLaren through while it was on a fast lap and he was preparing for a run.<br>"It is an incident I apologise for and the whole team apologises," said Sainz. "It ended up costing us three places."<br>The ...

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Albon made Q3 and qualified 10th, and eventually finished eighth, right behind his own teammate Daniil Kvyat.<br><br>Read Also:<br><br>Toro Rosso not getting results it deserves - Albon<br><br><br>Both drivers beat the team's previous season best of ninth, and it was also the first time this year that both made the points.<br>The result allowed Toro Rosso to overtake both Renault and Alfa Romeo in ...

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Albon has shown strong performances in the first four races of the year and, with Pierre Gasly having faced some struggles at Red Bull, there has already been speculation he could be promoted if the main team thinks it needs to change drivers.<br>But while Tost has been hugely encouraged by how quickly Albon has adapted to F1, he is clear that the Anglo-Thai driver will need a lot more experience ...

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Although the Faenza-based team had looked strong throughout practice and qualifying in Azerbaijan, Albon and teammate Daniil Kvyat were unable to turn their best grid slots of the year into points.<br>Albon lost ground after a lengthy first stint and finished 11th, while Kvyat suffered a slump of pace in the opening laps before a recovery was cut short when he was hit by Daniel Ricciardo in a ...

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Although the Thai driver has impressed during the first three races of the year, he admits himself that one of the difficulties he has faced is finding the limits early enough in the weekend.<br>Following discussions with his Toro Rosso team, a new structure for his Friday run plans has now been agreed which should allow him to focus on getting himself dialled in better rather than pushing so much ...

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Albon was required to make a pitlane start after a huge crash on Saturday morning forced the team to build up the spare chassis.<br>Rather than go for a conservative strategy and long opening stint, STR gave Albon a set of new soft tyres for the start.<br>He managed to do 19 laps before switching to the hard tyre for the run to the flag, subsequently staying ahead of drivers who stopped ...

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Competing in only his third Grand Prix, the Anglo-Thai racer completed a comeback drive that belied his lack of experience.<br>His free practice three session ended with a crash in the barrier on the exit of the final corner, which ruled him out of qualifying. His rebuilt Toro Rosso had a change of survival cell, which meant he had to start the race from the pit lane.<br>Deploying a one-stop ...

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The F1 rookie crashed his Toro Rosso in final practice and missed qualifying because his team had to change his survival cell, consigning him to a pitlane start.<br>However, he pulled off a one-stop strategy to rise to 10th and bag his second point in a row, fending off the Haas of Romain Grosjean late on.<br>Asked who told him he had been named driver of the day, Albon said: "My trainer. I was ...

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The Toro Rosso rookie missed qualifying at the Shanghai circuit after running slightly wide exiting the final corner, losing control of his car and spearing into the barrier before the pitwall begins.<br>Honda has confirmed the engine will not be used in the car Toro Rosso is building around a new monocoque.<br>"We are all relieved that Alex is fine after his FP3 crash," said Honda F1 technical ...

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It was Albon’s second crash of the season after his FP1 shunt in Australia, and his team boss Franz Tost has urged him to put it behind him and learn a lesson from it.<br>Albon ran wide at the exit of the final corner and had a heavy impact with the barrier on the right, badly damaging the left-hand side of the car and triggering a red flag that ended the session prematurely.<br>With the chassis ...

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Practice was red-flagged with five minutes remaining when Alexander Albon ran wide at the exit of the final corner and smote his Toro Rosso against the barrier.<br>Honours were split in Friday practice as Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel went fastest in the first session and Bottas topped the second, while analysis of long-run times suggested the teams were closely matched on potential race ...

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Albon stepped up to grand prix racing after finishing third in Formula 2 in 2018, having had no previous F1 driving experience before making his debut with Toro Rosso at Misano during a filming day ahead of pre-season testing.<br>The Thai driver finished 14th in his maiden race in Australia before scoring two points with ninth place in Bahrain. Albon says he has taken his team boss' advice on ...

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Albon, who hadn't driver an F1 car until the shakedown for the STR13 in February, has outqualified teammate Daniil Kvyat in both races thus far.<br>He scored his first points with a ninth-place finish in Bahrain.<br>"We've been quite positively impressed from the first test onwards," Tost told Motorsport.com.<br>"He is doing a really good job, and I must say if he continues like this, he will ...

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The Toro Rosso rookie benefitted from Renault's late double-retirement to finish ninth and bag two points on only his second F1 start.<br>His race had started being boxed in at the first corner, and he was following Lance Stroll out of the first sequence of turns when the Racing Point produced a huge trail of sparks after picking up damage from contact with Romain Grosjean.<br>"I was a bit too ...

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Albon, who had not driven an F1 car until last month’s shakedown, qualified 13th in Melbourne, ahead of experienced teammate Daniel Kvyat.<br>He finished 14th in the race, having suffered from brake overheating issues early on.<br>Although he was well outside the points, the team was pleased with how he tackled his first weekend.<br>“He did a really solid job,” Egginton told Motorsport.com ...

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The Toro Rosso driver had a spin on the exit of Turn 1 in the opening session, knocking off his front wing and causing a brief stoppage to track action.<br>Reflecting on what happened, Albon said that he had been caught out as he started to push more in his first official outing on a grand prix weekend.<br>“I was just building up my confidence, and was getting a little better,” he said ...

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Albon has graduated from Formula 2 and will make his F1 debut in the Australian Grand Prix season opener.<br>He had not driven an F1 car before Toro Rosso's shakedown, which gave him a handful of laps in the STR14 prior to having four days in the car across two weeks of testing at Barcelona.<br>Asked where he felt the Toro Rosso is strongest, Albon said: "We're just happy with the car, there's no ...

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