Dave Robson admitted that the Williams Racing workforce got here to the Autodromo Nazionale Monza believing they may rating factors, they usually have been capable of obtain that because of the superb drive put in by Alexander Albon.
Logan Sargeant might have missed out on the highest ten as he completed down in thirteenth, however Albon was one of many stars of the weekend in Italy, the Thai driver qualifying sixth earlier than placing on a powerful defensive drive to make sure seventh on Sunday, equalling his greatest end result thus far this season.
He misplaced just one place throughout the race to Lewis Hamilton, with the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Method One Workforce driver working a special technique to take action, however Albon was capable of face up to race-long strain from the 2 McLaren F1 Workforce drivers till the chequered flag.
Robson, the Head of Automobile Efficiency at Williams, admitted that the recent situations at Monza weren’t useful for the workforce, however to place in such a powerful efficiency regardless of this and the excessive degradation to the tyres was excellent news for everybody inside the Grove-based workforce.
“We got here to Monza pondering that we might rating factors on benefit and we achieved that as we speak,” stated Robson. “The recent situations weren’t perfect for us, however we all know that that is an space that we have to work on, and we’re working laborious to enhance the state of affairs.
“Each drivers have been superb, particularly given the excessive tyre degradation and sizzling situations. Alex was good once more and was capable of frustrate the McLarens for nearly the whole race.
“It was a disgrace that he couldn’t keep inside 5 seconds of Lewis on the finish, however to lose just one place following a really sturdy exhibiting in Qualifying is a wonderful end result.”
Regardless of lacking out on factors as soon as once more, Robson believes Sargeant will be taught so much by what he was compelled to do in Italy, significantly surrounding tyre administration with mushy tyres on a very popular observe with a low downforce set-up.
“Logan drove very properly and for a time it regarded like he might safe a points-scoring place,” stated Robson. “Ultimately Valtteri [Bottas] had an excessive amount of tempo and was capable of overtake.
“Nonetheless, racing at low downforce on a sizzling observe and with mushy compounds is a really beneficial expertise and one which he can construct on, beginning in Singapore in two weeks’ time.”
