The Miami 2025 Miami prize was a triumph for Williams. Both Alexander Albon and Carlos Sainz Jr. ended at the points of the Grand Prix, with Albon crossing the line in P5 and Sainz ending in ninth. Talking to the media on Saturday after qualifying Sainz was euphoric to be only “three to three” out of the position of the pole, and the end of Albon ahead of both Ferraris in Pure Pure certainly.
But it was not a soft operation consisting of the race, particularly from Sainz’s point of view. The Spanish pilot felt frustrated after the Miami Grand Prix, believing that Albon overcame it after receiving instructions not to compete. “Yes, it is not so … this is not how I’m going to run, boys,” Sainz said on the radio after the checkered flag. “I don’t care. I have lost a lot of confidence here in everything.”
Both Albon and Sainz went to advance after the race when talking to the media.
“[I]F They tell me on the radio that I am not going to be attacked, and that we are going to join together, so that they always overcome it, as a driver you feel stupid, you feel helpless, “Sainz told the media, including the media, even SB nationAfter the Miami Grand Prix. “Because you are playing the good boy, in the same way that I play the good boy in Jeddah, and you overcome and you look complete stupid. But you know what is going, we will talk about that and we are marihuados.
For his part, Albon believed that a delay in communication between the team and the two cars could have contributed to the situation, but believed that it was Sainz at this time, it was free to compete.
“It was probably at the exact moment that this message was hit towards him, so I think that if we stayed a little stronger together.
Now, the team director, James Vowles, is giving his “verdict” about the situation.
In the last “The Vowles verdict”, a series after the race produced by the team, Vowles described what happened in Miami, with a concession that the situation was “the part that frustrated me most from the weekend of the race.”
According to the votes, Albon was on the edge or surpassed Sainz, but was also dealing with an overheating FW47. Communication with drivers who were at most than a distance when Albon was completing his overtaking.
“A message was communicated to both race engineers, effective that Alex had a problem of reliability and that we needed to enter the radiators,” Vowles said. “That communicated both with the decision to make a little gap between the cars for the moment to make sure we did it.
“However, that message was not clear in its construction. It was clear if the overtaking was possible or not. The main function is to make the car cool.
“Carlos communicated the message: ‘Alex will not attack you’ Alex that same message was reported that it is not to overcome Carlos, but only [when] His DRS was open and was effective with Carlos completing the advance.
“So this is not Alex going against team orders, this is in us as a team as an organization to significantly adjust the way we communicate with engineers and how quickly we communicate with drivers.”
Williams chief promised that the situation would not happen again.
“What I can ensure that everyone follows that they simply happen again.”
Vowles also indicated that he understood exactly where Sainz came from, with his frustration after the checkered flag.
“I would disappoint me if we did the frustrated pilots for what happens on the road. They are giving their hearts and soul, so in the case of Carlos I was fighting for a fifth place for merit.
“In the circumstances in which something catches you and you are not sure if it was the driver or anything else that happens, it can frustrate you. But his passion is exactly why I want him in this team and in the car.
“We spent quite some time after the race and again on Monday talking through it, the incident was actually just a few minutes, but the most important thing is the most important. [discussing] How, as a team, we advance that and do a better job in the future. “
Even with the incident, Williams gave a duration of 12 points of the Miami Grand Prix, increasing his advantage over the sixth place of Haas in the Constructors Championship to 17 points.
