Miami, Florida – Williams has enjoyed a strong start in the 2025 season of Formula 1.
A great reason for that, according to Alexander Albon, is how close is the gap between him and the new teammate Carlos Sainz Jr. That narrow gap is partly due to Sainz’s ability to quickly catch up with his new team and in a new car.
Speaking with the media, including SB nationThorsday in Hard Rock Stadium Sainz indicated that and the team is “moving in the right direction” after only five races.
“Having had a couple of good weekends after a couple of bad, you must learn how good things apply and keep things good, and be sure to continue working on bad things,” said Sainz.
“And I feel this week [off] It has helped us understand that. I just had some request with my engineers there, and yes, it seems that we are moving in the right direction.
Even so, Sainz admitted that he even thought that the team was moving in the right direction, there may be some additional “blows” along the way.
“I have told you, and I think I have said many times, that we still have some potholes in the adaptation process because you need to discover some things.
“Five races are not enough to discover your strengths and weaknesses or things that may surprise you by surprise, but I think we are in the right direction and that is the important thing.”
Sainz also described the media how many adjustments are still being carried out, since life is acclimated in Williams after driving for Ferrari for four seasons.
“Every weekend I still try something different with the configuration, and the last weekends seem to have tried some that worked,” said Sainz. “If I continue to apply this philosophy for sure at one time, I will try something that does not work and I need to reverse, so I need more examples of that and probable, perhaps what worked here that could not work in learning. Experience.
“And then, with the driving, sure, I think there are conditions that I have still been in this car, the asphalt and the uses and blows and blows that I have not yet done with this car.”
Perhaps Sainz’s most interesting comments arrived when he talked about his transition to Williams, and Lewis Hamilton translation, his replacement in Ferrari, is trying. When asked about the recent struggles of Hamilton, Sainz declared that they were not a surprise, given the great changes that a driver supports when changing equipment.
“It doesn’t surprise me at all,” Begen Sainz. “For me, I expected myelf to make me and expected him with him.
“Because in this sport there are no secrets and when you face two teammates we are, like Alex and Charles [Leclerc] They know the team from outside. They are the performance of the creation in the maximum that the car can perform, so it can only do it a little better or the same as them.
“Suddenly you arrive and you will be two or three times faster because it is not possible.
“They are already at the limit of the car, so when you jump to a new team and you wait for you and everyone around you are on that level, you know, it will take time and there is no secret.
“They know much more than you.”
As with the situation in Ferrari, Sainz connected that some patience could also be necessary in Williams.
“It will take a little time and the son you do that process and the son you are on that level, better,” Sainz added. “But for some drivers, it can take more time or shorter. Lewis had an incredible weekend in China. Then it seems to have a little more problems now, but it will take time for a new driver to adapt.
“It is a complicated question because it deepens how natural the car is reached. It depends on how natural is the relationship with the engineers and that mixture that comes.
How long could this process take? It could bleed in 2026 according to Sainz.
“I have always said that to know a car well. You need at least half or year to experience each with that car,” Sainz added. “That doesn’t mean you can’t do the door that year.
“If you can perform 100% or 99%, and 99% could still be quite good.
“But 100% sure there is.
“There are things you need for half a year that I would say.”
Williams arrives in Miami with 25 points in the year, sitting fifth in the classification.
I only imagine how that would see once that Sainz has the time you seek to adjust.
