Albon makes his return to F1 after a year out with Williams, teaming up wi๊th Nicholas Lati♚fi.

The Thai driver struggled during his stint alongside Max Verstappen, ultimately being dropped in favour of Sergio Perez at the end of 2020.&nb꧒sp;

His year out wasn’t entirely wast💃ed as he was Red Bull’s test and reserve driver, fulfilling an important role in the team’s simulator.

Despite Williams and Red Bull’s varying degrees of suc🗹cess in the last 15 years, Albon sees similarities between the two teams.

“Honestly, they are very similar,” Albon ꧒said in Barcelona. “The way that Formula 1 teams are structured now as well, they all have similar structures within them. I honestly can’t tell you there’s a standout with either of them which I think is a good thing. It’s very professional, very positive within the engineering group that I am working with here trackside at Williams and it all feels good. 

“As I said just now, we’re in a good position where we can start already focusing on performance which is exciting as a driver you can start to the tyre guys, speaking to the performance guꦗys [about] what we can do. 

“Structures internally are slightly different in terms of how many pꦺeople are working on what a♋rea of the team and things like that, how they designate jobs at the track. No, obviously they’re working in a very similar way. If there was something that stood out I would tell you but there honestly isn’t.”

Albon will be back in action for W🎉illiams when testing gets underway later this week on Thursday in Bahrain.