{"id":122740,"date":"2025-09-08T11:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T11:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/122740\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T11:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T11:24:09","slug":"on-this-day-in-2021-alex-albon-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/122740\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day in 2021: Alex Albon Signs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four years ago today, it was announced that Alex Albon would be joining Atlassian Williams Racing for the 2022 Formula 1 season. Since then, Albono has become a cornerstone of the team \u2013 on and off the track.<\/p>\n<p>Since arriving at Grove, Alex has scored points on 26 occasions, amassing 113 in total (so far). With 82 race starts in Williams blue, he now sits third on our all-time list, behind only Nigel Mansell and Ralf Schumacher.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;object-fit:contain;opacity:1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/8b7a8d8a6eba5ba9ea6de084092ae565985d7ea8-2500x3125.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Alex Albon, Atlassian Williams Racing Formula 1 driver, at the 2025 Italian Grand Prix wearing helmet and race suit on the grid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Alex&#8217;s P7 on Sunday was his 26th points finish for the team<\/p>\n<p>Along the way, we\u2019ve witnessed some memorable moments: tyre whispering his way to P10 in Melbourne 2022, a defensive masterclass in Montreal 2023, that stunning P4 Quali lap at Zandvoort 2023, leading double-points finishes in Austin 2023 and Baku 2024, and four brilliant P5 results already this year.<\/p>\n<p>But now we want to hear from you. What\u2019s been your favourite Albono x Williams moment so far?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s one of those landmark drives, or perhaps it\u2019s something away from the track. Share your highlights and messages with us \u2013 we\u2019ll feature some of our favourites later this week.<\/p>\n<p>AA23 x Atlassian Williams Racing<\/p>\n<p>Tell us your favourite moment, on track or off, or send a message to Alex&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four years ago today, it was announced that Alex Albon would be joining Atlassian Williams Racing for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-122740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}