Albon: Miami F1 result “less surprising” than Australia

Albon was ninth in FP3 on Saturday however had a difficulty with tyre temperatures in Q1, and thus discovered himself caught in 18th on the grid.

By the flag he had labored his method as much as tenth, repeating the Melbourne outcome that he had achieved by staying out on the laborious tyres and pitting on the final lap.

He was subsequently handed ninth place after Fernando Alonso acquired a penalty for gaining a bonus by going off observe.

“I’m tremendous completely satisfied,” mentioned Albon when requested by Motorsport.com about his race. “In case you take a look at the entire weekend, I’d really say that is clearly a lot much less shocking than Melbourne.

“We have been within the prime 10 for 2 free apply periods, and so usually there. It wasn’t low gasoline or something like that, we have been there on pure tempo. So to get the P10 is, I really feel, the place we should always have been all weekend.

“In fact, we lucked into slightly little bit of collisions with the automobiles in entrance, however we have been proper there behind them, catching them as effectively. So I am actually completely satisfied. It was a very sturdy weekend.

“The anomaly is qualifying. And we sort of want to know the place to get the efficiency again, as a result of I feel we obtained it in Bahrain, and we simply simply misplaced our footing slightly bit.

“We have had the brake difficulty in Imola. We had the gasoline difficulty in Melbourne. After which right here we simply could not change the tyres on, so it is wanting very constructive.”

Albon pressured that he had good tempo all through the race, and had even battled with eventual fifth place finisher George Russell, who began on the tougher tyre.

“We have been combating George in the beginning of the race. We really overtook him at one level. We then caught Daniel [Ricciardo] within the race, after which we have been catching the entire pack in entrance of us.

“So I do not even name it luck. We have been once more optimistic on technique, we stayed out the place everybody else pitted, and we took our probabilities as we at all times maintain doing, and that is what’s placing us in these conditions the place we’re nipping on the factors.”

Concerning the Alonso penalty he mentioned: “It was a bit irritating on the time, as a result of I heard in regards to the reducing and I used to be like, I can might have simply reduce and obtained that three-tenths a lap. It is actually good.

“We had I felt like a really deserved level there. It was a irritating qualifying, and to get the bonus is absolutely good.”