Ex-Ferrari engineer Rob Smedley has praised 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Albon for his strong start to the 2025 F1 season after there were “lots of question marks” ab🥂out his form.

After being dropped by Red Bull at the end of 2020, Albon spent the following year on the sidelines before returning to F1 with Williams full-time.

Aꦕlbo🗹n has slowly rebuilt his reputation at the Grove-based outfit.

However, questiꦰon marks remained regarding his ultimate level of performance, ⛦given the identity of his previous teammates.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nicholas Latifi and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Logan Sargeant proved to be weak competition.

Immediately, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Franco Colapinto proved to be a sterner test, leading to conce𝓰rns about how good Albon is.

Albon has batted away any questions over his level in F1, out-performing new teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz.

Albon has scored 30 points in the opening six rounds, putting him an impressive eighth🍰 in ꧟the F1 drivers’ championship.

Smedley, who was Felipe Massa’s race engineer from 2ꩵ006 to 2013, believes Albon has now silenced any c🐎ritics.

“I also think it’s down to the fact that they’ve now got two very good drivers. Alex Albon, there were lots of queᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚstion marks from the sidelines about ‘how good was🦹 Alex?’,” Smedley said on the F1 Nation Podcast.

“Because💟 since he got demoted from the Red Bull team, how good were the drivers that he was put✤ up against and how good were the drivers that he was put up against in Williams, especially at the start of his journey.

“That’s now been answered with Carlos, right? Alex is a very good driver, Alex has got his feet under the table. We know how good Carlos is, for me, Carl๊os is one of the best all-round drivers on the grid, he’s definitely a guy, in a top car, could win a world championship.”

Albon “in the form of his life”

L𒅌egendary F1 commentator Martin Brundle has also noticed Albon’s impressive performances in 2025.

following the Miami Grand Prix.

Albon finished fifth in Miami, beating Kimi An𒁏tonelli, Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton.

It meant that Williams had the 🌞fourth-🐈fastest car on merit in Miami.

Williams have scored 3꧒7 points in the opening six rounds, making it their best start to a year since 2017.