Albon Picks Melbourne Opener as Signature Moment of Williams’ 2025 Revival
He credits James Vowles’ culture shift for enabling an early surge that underpinned the team’s P5 finish.
Overview
- Williams completed 2025 in fifth place with 137 points, its best championship result since 2017.
- Albon scored in seven of the first eight races and ended the year eighth in the standings, nine points ahead of Carlos Sainz.
- He highlighted Melbourne as his proudest weekend after qualifying sixth and finishing fourth on track, later classified fifth when a rival’s penalty was rescinded.
- Sainz delivered Williams’ late-season highs with podiums in Baku and Qatar as Albon failed to score in the final eight grands prix.
- Albon praised Vowles’ open, ego‑free environment as a key factor in the step forward, with the team now channeling effort into the 2026 rules shift with both drivers involved in development.