At the Monza circuit, Alexander Albon visibly enjoyed his return to the track in a competitive environment. The former Red Bull driver last competed in an official race at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix last year. During the season opener of the DTM season in Italy, Albon took part in an official race for the first time, so the Thai took extensive time for an interview with RacingNews365, in which the name of Max Verstappen logically also passed in review.
“I have an excellent relationship with Max and that is partly because I have known him for a long time. We also raced against each other in karts and Verstappen is a good guy. He is always very honest and he is also a person who is not political. because he is such a good driver. That way he can always focus on himself and that’s good too, that’s how it should be as a driver. In the end it’s about performing well yourself and that’s what Max does.” , said Albon, who is hopeful of Red Bull’s chances in the battle for the title this season.
“Obviously Red Bull has taken another step forward this season and I think that’s partly because we’re the team that makes the best use of the simulator. We spend a lot of time in it. I’ve had days behind it.” living together and I mean all day long,” Albon laughs broadly. “In the morning I crawled in and in the afternoon after lunch I went on again and that for about twenty days a month. That is certainly not easy, because of course you get some trouble all the time to the having to watch screens, but in the end you get used to it.”
“The team has also managed to align all the little details just a little better this season and from those small changes we can now compete with Mercedes. I’m very happy about that, because it’s nice to to see that Red Bull fights the duels with that team every week,” said Albon, who already realized last year that Red Bull had a competitive car.
“Of course we already had a good car in 2020 and because we have been able to adjust a few small things this winter, we now have a car that is good enough to compete at the front. tweaked a few little things to the suspension and its tuning. It’s those little tweaks that make the difference in the end. It’s all about the details in the end. Those little details have made the car less ‘tricky’ than last year. I’m here We are therefore sure that we can fight for the title all season.”
During the time Albon spent in the simulator last winter, the Thai already sensed that Red Bull was in good shape. “You can really feel a lot in the simulator. Of course driving a real car is still different, but I could already feel in the simulator that this year’s car would be very good. I don’t think it matters much either Whether we’re driving with a setting with more or less downforce, it’s just that the car feels good in every scenario this year.”
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