“It was tricky,” Alex Albon explains the blue flag incident involving Charles Leclerc in Monaco

“It was tricky,” Alex Albon explains the blue flag incident involving Charles Leclerc in Monaco

Alex Albon and Charles Leclerc

Alex Albon had crossed 16 blue flags on the street of Monaco with Charles Leclerc behind him, that might have caused the latter his first home race win. Alex explained his lack of discipline for the flags as the best strategy for both of them. Home hero was let by at Sainte Devote but the damage had already been done. Both the Red Bulls after the pit saw their way ahead of Leclerc’s Ferrari.

The Williams driver was one of the few to come out on slicks which apparently gave him a pace advantage over the rest on intermediate. Charles, on the other hand, pitted for intermediate two laps before the Williams. To which Alex explained, “It was tricky because we went out on slicks and we had a massive pace advantage but it would take three corners to let him past and then I would have been, straight away, quick enough to overtake him again.”



Ferrari driver was furious on the radio about this incident, “Come on! What the f**k?”, he later went through a strategy miscommunication that took away his win and a chance to lead the championship again. 

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Positives for the Williams over the weekend

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Williams on the streets of Monaco

Willaims failed to score points yet again this weekend but didn’t lack much on pace. Nicholas Latifi hit the barriers before even starting the race but later on managed to finish P15. Alex Albon had to retire due to unfortunate issues on the front but did manage to catch the pace to the ones in the midfield.

“[It was] scruffy but as a whole, as a weekend, it would have been very tricky to score points but I felt we were much closer to the midfield and in general it was a positive weekend,” explained Alex. 

Alex Albon is doing quite well in the Williams considering it as his first season for the team, Williams still stays P10 on the championship table but has already scored points this season.


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