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Albon to start from P4: "Hit our sweet spot early"
Alex Albon has qualified in fourth place for the Dutch Grand Prix. It marks Williams' best start since the 2021 Belgian Grand Prix George Russell made the most of the wet conditions in Spa. Albon explains how he is 'feeliong at one' with the Williams car at Zandvoort.
Williams find their feet quickly
All weekend Williams have been sitting towards the top of the leaderboard, and even gave some times for Verstappen to beat during Friday practice. That turned out to be true pace, which Albon didn't believe straight away.
"I just felt like we just hit our sweet spot early. We didn't really play too much with the car since FP1. It made me feel confident. When you add confidence with a track like this, which is so narrow, so uncompromising, and at the same time mixed conditions, you really just need to feel at one with the car, and I have done this weekend," Albon explained to GPblog and others.
"It's just about having a car that's drivable on the limit. Our car has been all weekend. That's my explanation. It's no secret that we're not normally good at high downforce circuits. The one explanation I do have, there's been a really nice headwind in a lot of these corners. Turn 9, turn 11 have always been terrible corners for us."
Albon equalled his best starting grid position. It's his first second-row start since the 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix when he was driving for Red Bull.