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“That was an intense race,” Albon said after the session. “Not intense in terms of cars around me, I was in the middle of nowhere, but Kevin [Magnussen] was pulling away with his 10-second penalty and Fernando [Alonso] was catching me up with his new set of tyres so yeah, we were struggling actually.
“It was one of those ones where the tortoise wins the race and just slowly, slowly and I just knew I had to keep being consistent, make sure that front left didn’t open up. And then as Fernando was coming there was a bit of ‘Jaws’ music and then we just hung on.”
Courtesy of Albon’s finishes at Monaco, Silverstone and Monza, Williams find themselves on six points, seven points behind eighth-placed Alpine. With an increasingly competitive battle for the tail end of the top 10 every race weekend, the Grove outfit are determined to take every opportunity they can.
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Albon explained: “We need to take these moments, we don’t have these moments often and obviously we missed out in Zandvoort when we really should have scored some points, and we lost points in Zandvoort to our championship rivals Alpine.
“We are on a kind of a slow burner, and we are only just getting back into it. We have an upgrade, another one planned hopefully in a couple of races, and let’s hope we can catch Alpine for P8 in the championship. That’s our target and the last couple of races have proved that we can have a fairly good car capable of Q3, so we’ll keep at it.”
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