(Motorsport-Total.com) – Alexander Albon has had a roller coaster ride in his rookie year 2019. The Briton was promoted to the side of top star Max Verstappen in the middle of the season in the top team Purple Bull. In the upcoming season, he wants to show that this was the right personnel decision.
“Of course I want to fight with Mercedes, Ferrari and Max”, Albon sums up his goal for the season after the first days of testing. He is one of the lucky few who sit in a top car, with which racing victories should also be possible.
However, among the Prime 6 drivers, Albon is the outsider, he can only on 21 refer to the Grand Prix for experience. Thanks to Lewis Hamilton's action in Brazil, he has so far been denied a podium finish. During the test drives in Barcelona, he was ranked after the first week 13 .
He was four tenths of a second short of Verstappen, but the Dutchman was on the C3 mix, the Briton on the harder one C2 tires. “It is currently about focusing on myself,” explains Albon after 217 laps.
Changed into him gives confidence: If it was thrown into cold water last year, Albon has now gone through a complete winter preparation with Purple Bull. He is better prepared this year. “Of course we only spent five or six months together, we are still learning from each other.”
“But to have this time in winter to sit down and look in which areas I would like more feedback to my performance “, that helped. The time in the factory and in the simulator also helped.
That was missing from Albon 2019. “During the year you are constantly on a racetrack, usually you drive the first free coaching straight away. So it is good to spend a little more time away from it to relax and talk about our goals.”
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