Alex Albon remembers having lived under very difficult pressure to bear at Red Bull. The criticisms arrived very quickly at the start of 2020, and he regrets not having managed to sign a remarkable result in order to be able to ease the expectations around him a little.
“I remember in one of the races I was asked where my performance was, and I thought it wasn’t that bad, and everyone needed to calm down” Albon recalled on F1’s Beyond the Grid podcast.
“I think a good result would have calmed everything down. I would have had a little less noise around me in the next six, seven races, because the noise started from the very first race of the year. was quite intense.”
A result could have arrived from the Austrian Grand Prix, the first round of the 2020 season, where he was in contention for a podium. But like in Brazil at the end of 2019, a clash with Lewis Hamilton ruined his hopes of finishing in the top three.
Nevertheless, the current Williams driver refuses to blame the seven-time world champion for having hit him, and for possibly having complicated the rest of his career. In Brazil in particular, he thinks he had his share of responsibility in the clash, less in the case of Austria.
“I will never blame Lewis for what happened to me. It’s all my fault. These are things that happen. He apologized and honestly, looking at the incident in Brazil, I think I could have help avoid the accident.”
“I always look at crashes between drivers and it’s never 100% vs. 0%, there’s always a bit of give and take in most of these incidents. However, I think the crash in Austria was his fault. , FYI” he concludes amused.
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