Albon admits Williams having ‘terrible time of it’ amid Las Vegas DNF as Colapinto reflects on ‘really hard’ race after qualifying crash

Alex Albon and Franco Colapinto have been left to rue one other difficult weekend for Williams on the Las Vegas Grand Prix, with Albon acknowledging that the staff are having a “horrible, horrible time of it” not too long ago as they once more walked away with no factors.

Saturday night time’s race had initially began in promising fashion for Albon because the Thai driver made positive aspects from his P17 grid slot, placing him within the battle for factors following the primary spherical of pit stops.

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However that cost got here to a halt when he was compelled to retire the automobile on Lap 25 of fifty owing to a suspected energy unit problem, persevering with a troublesome run of weekends for the Williams squad who’ve failed to attain a degree – in addition to going through a number of heavy crashes – throughout the previous three occasions.

“It’s irritating,” Albon conceded after his early exit from the race. “I really feel like we’ve had a horrible, horrible time of it as of late. It’s simply irritating. I used to be excited concerning the race, I felt like [we could score] nice factors hopefully.

“[I thought we could] repay the staff – particularly the mechanics and everybody on the manufacturing unit – for all of the laborious work we’ve been going by means of over the previous couple of weeks, and it will have been nice to repay them, nevertheless it wasn’t meant to be. One other one so as to add to the checklist, so hopefully we are able to bounce again stronger in Qatar.”