Alex Albon has called on Williams to improve its communication after revealing that changes were made to his car during qualifying at the Austrian Grand Prix without his knowledge.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Both Albon and Carlos Sainz were eliminated in the first part of qualifying at the Red Bull Ring, with the former having to settle for 18th on the grid.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
It resulted in a difficult afternoon for the Thai-British driver, who gained just one position and brought his car home in 17th.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Overtaking proved highly difficult in the absence of DRS; however, Albon believes it was what happened in qualifying that cost Williams, insisting the team “dug our own grave”.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
He revealed that he had not been informed about the changes made to his car in the final minutes of Q1 and called for improvements in communication.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Asked about things not looking right on his last qualifying run, Albon told select media, including RacingNews365: “Yeah, we made some tweaks to the car between Q1 runs two and three that I was unaware of.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I think, yeah, we could have done better, maybe just in communicating what changes were made to the car. We dug our own grave on that one.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Asked to clarify whether he was unaware of the changes, Albon replied: “Yes. But that’s okay, that happens.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The race itself was also a frustrating affair for Albon in what were the hottest conditions of the season so far.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
It was declared a ‘heat hazard’ by the FIA, allowing cooling vests to be worn; however, even that proved difficult due to another Williams issue.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Discussing if he wore a cooling vest, Albon said: “I did, yes. But we have an issue with our seat. A cooling vest requires a cool seat to be used, otherwise it turns into a heating vest,” he joked.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Albon has called on Williams to improve its communication after revealing that changes were made to his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-768381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}