Williams technical director François-Xavier Demaison has called on Alexander Albon to “push” him hard, saying he can be “too nice” at times.
Alexander Albon successfully returns to F1 with Williams. Proving dominant against Nicholas Latifi throughout the 2022 season, he scored points for the side in a machine that generally lacked performance in midfield.
Former Red Bull F1 driver Alexander Albon is known to be one of the educated within the F1 paddock on how he helped Williams progress in 2022 after a year on the sidelines as Red Bull reserve driver.
Alexander Albon, who has signed a multi-year deal with Williams after next season, will welcome American rookie Logan Sargent as his new team-mate in 2023, but technical director François-Xavier Domaison will be the lead driver. whoever it is, will push the team a little harder.
“It really helped us because we are just engineers and we need a driver who can point us in the right direction. His experience helped us and gave us the right direction,” commented François-Xavier Domaison.
“He’s a good guy. Sometimes he’s too good. He needs to be a little tougher on the team and push it a little harder, but I’m working on it.”
“It’s his nature. He’s tough unless you’re wearing a helmet, but he can be tougher in debriefing.”
“I tell him every day, ‘You have to be.’ I don’t say those words out loud! If you want to be world champion, you have to be like this.”
But Alex Albon says he has a “fiery side” to him.
In an interview with the BBC earlier this year, Alexander Albon was skeptical that he was ‘too nice’ to be successful, and he was a very different person when his visor was down and he was doing wheel-to-wheel battle. wheel.
“People misunderstand me,” Albon said in October.
“They might think I’ve always been a happy-go-lucky, not hungry, too kind kid.”
“They don’t have headphones, so they don’t see the fierce side. They don’t hear what I’m saying while they’re driving.”
“Of course I’m very happy. I love what I do. That’s why I wanted to go to F1. And I feel I’ve learned to enjoy and relax. But I want to be in F1. If so, you definitely need a fiery side.”
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