“It's very difficult to get points when you qualify in eighteenth or nineteenth position. At that point you also need a bit of luck, yet the performance of the car on the long run is really good - the words of Jost Capito, the Williams team principal, to Motorsport.com – Albon had an exceptional race in Miami, he is a great driver and he demonstrated that the car is at the level of the others in the mid-field in terms of speed, we just need to solve the qualifying problem and start further up the grid. We need to learn better to manage the tyres, to make the right choices, to extract all the potential on the flying lap. Albon is a brilliant driver in the race, he always makes the right choices and is very good at managing the car. In qualifying in Miami the car was unbalanced, the team was disappointed, but these guys want to react and get back on top".
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According to the team principal, the potential of the FW44 is held back by difficulties on the flying lap
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Williams picked up another two points in Miami, thanks to Alex Albon's ninth place. The Grove team has so far played the part of the Cinderella of the group, yet the FW44 doesn't seem like such a slow single-seater, especially when it comes to race pace. The problem that has afflicted the new Williams most of all is the performance in qualifying, on the flying lap, where the team had great difficulty extracting the potential of the single-seater.
Always placing in the back rows makes everything more difficult, which is why the English team must work to improve on Saturdays. Albon started eighteenth in Miami, managing to climb up to tenth position, which later became ninth thanks to the penalty inflicted on Alonso.
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