Hungarian GP: Performance missing in Williams Racing Friday


By Williams Racing
August 2 2025

By the end of the second Friday practice session for the 2025 HUngarian GP the Atlassian Williams Racing Team would see both Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon finish well down the times in 16th & 18th. The opening practice was fairly positive but the second, after the team had made changes, saw both Alex & Carlos less than satisfied with the direction that they took. Hopefully changes made overnight will see both improve in Saturday practice.

 
 Williams Racing Hungarian GP Friday Practice Review
Albon
 

Albon

Alex Albon:
"Today has been okay. Our FP1 pace was strong. We didn't do a second push, but we were looking top five pace in that session on a track that doesn't normally suit us. We've made some set-up changes to the car this weekend that feel good. We maybe went in the wrong direction for FP2, so we need to look at that. We knew this was going to be a tricky track for us but that allows us an opportunity to explore set-up and we have some good ideas now."

Sainz 
  

Carlos Sainz:
"We had a few issues today but, ultimately, we don’t seem to have the performance we want this weekend. We did expect this track to be challenging for us, and we’ve tried to find areas of performance all day with different set-ups. We’ll take all the learnings from today, make some changes overnight and give our best shot tomorrow at the top ten in Qualifying."
 
Sainz
 
Albon
 
Hungaroring, Hungary | 4.381km
 
Driver FP1 FP2
C. Sainz 1:17.195 (15th) 1:16.874 (16th)
A. Albon 1:16.984 (11th) 1:17.021 (18th)
 
Sainz