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