United States GP: Williams Racing achieves successful Sprint


By Williams Racing
October 19 2025

Saturday at the 2025 United States GP was one that offered the Atlassian Williams Racing Team the opportunities of the Sprint followed by qualifying for Sunday's race. And the teams day would start with a successful Sprint with Carlos Sainz finishing 3rd backed up by a sixtrh place from Alex Albon. Both drivers were able to avoid some Turn one chaos with several cars making contact. Despite several Safety Cars both Carlos and Alex were able to maintain their positions in the Sprint. It was another great result for Williams Racing. This was followed by qualifying and this would see Carlos finish an encouraging 9th but it was not as successful for Alex as he would finish well down the times in 19th. Alex had issues with his car during the Sprint whcih the team rectified prior to qualifying but the changes would upset the blanace of his car, making qualifying that much more difficult. Alex would also suffered a deleted time due to track limits, a time that would have seen him make it past Q1. But overall a successful day for Williams.

 
 Atlassian Williams Racing United States GP Sprint - Qualifying
 
Sainz
 
Sainz

Carlos Sainz:
"Today was another good day and I’m happy with my laps. We executed a clean session and pace felt strong. Unfortunately the wind picked up for the last part of qualifying and our car becomes a bit trickier to drive, so overall P9 was more or less our spot today. I have confidence on my race pace for tomorrow so I hope to give these great fans another exciting race to cheer on! We'll aim to move forwards through the pack and hopefully stay close to the cars at the front of the grid. Our ultimate goal is to bring home some more points for the team, so let’s race!"

Albon

Alex Albon:
"It was a decent start to the day with the Sprint; we were able to stay out of trouble and make up some positions to bring home a few points. On Friday, we figured out there was a differential issue with the car, and we couldn’t make the changes in time for the Sprint, so going into qualifying the balance and setup was completely new. We need to have a look at the data properly, but by resolving the issue it impacted the balance, and I had more understeer than usual. Generally, the changes made a better and more predictable car, which is positive, but it needed a bit of tuning to accommodate the setup changes, and we didn’t have the time as it was straight into Q1. My final push lap time was deleted for track limits which is a shame as we should’ve been through to Q2 at least. Let’s see what tomorrow brings."

 

James Vowles Team Principal:
"It has been a brilliant day for us. The team walks away with nine more points in this World Championship with both Alex and Carlos contributing to the huge points haul. It’s the first Sprint podium we have ever achieved as Williams which is a proud moment for me. We are in a strong position with Carlos tomorrow, starting P9, and I think we have a good opportunity in the race. With Alex, we’ve been struggling with a differential issue across the weekend, and he did brilliantly in the Sprint to get those points in sixth. The team did a fantastic job rebuilding the back of the car before qualifying and the changes were positive, however they significantly changed the balance of the car which meant he wasn’t able to extract everything out of it and it was more unpredictable to him. I am confident that the platform he has for tomorrow will be strong and he’ll be back fighting towards points."

 
Albon
 
Circuit of the Americas, USA   Lap Length: 5.513km
Sprint Race
Pos Driver Team Finish Pos Time/Gap Fastest Lap
7 C Sainz Williams Racing 3 +0.791  1:37.510
9 A Albon Williams Racing 6 +2.576  1:38.220
 
Qualifying
Pos Driver Team Q1 Q2 Q3
9 A Albon Williams Racing 1:33.739 1:33.124 1:33.150
18 C Sainz Williams Racing 1:34.690 - -
 
Sainz
 
Albon
 

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