Miami GP: Promising Sprint Qualifying for Williams Racing


By Williams Racing
May 3 2025

The Sprint Qualifying session for the Atlassian Williams Racing Team would see Alex Albon finish 8th having made it into SQ3 while team-mate Carlos Sainz would finish in 15th. For Carlos his session was going along well but he would make a mistake, a wheel lock-up, that would see him fail to set a time in SQ2 and was thus eliminated. But overall it was a promising session for the team with both drivers having good pace.

 
 Atlassian Williams Racing Miami GP Sprint Qualifying
 
Sainz
 
Sainz

Carlos Sainz:
"In hindsight, it was not the right call to risk getting into SQ3 with only one lap. I made a mistake locking up into Turn 11 and that was it, there was no time left on the clock. Up to that point, the lap was good but I’m obviously not happy because we were fast today. It’s going to be a tough Sprint tomorrow. I’ll try my best to recover and go at it again in the afternoon in Qualifying. We seem to have good pace this weekend, so I look forward to getting back on track."
Albon

Alex Albon:
"Friday done with and it was generally a very positive day. The car’s been in a really good place from the moment we did the first lap in FP1. I’m happy but it looks like some of the other teams found a bit more performance on their side over the course of the day. We were pretty much optimised from the outset, but we fell back a little bit in SQ3. It’s not a bad place to be though. Best of the midfield and we’re in a good place to score points, but there’s still a little bit of homework to be done before main Qualifying tomorrow."
 
Albon
 
Albon
 
Miami International Autodrome, USA Lap Length: 5.412km
Pos Driver Team Q1 Q2 Q3
8 A Albon Williams Racing 1:27.859   1:27.697 1:27.193
15 C Sainz Williams Racing 1:27.899 No Time -
 
Albon
 

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