A Career-Best Weekend in an Otherwise Difficult Year
Alex Albon has spent much of 2026 fighting the same uphill battle as team-mate Carlos Sainz. Sitting 17th in the drivers’ championship with five points, the Williams driver’s season has been defined by a car that has struggled to match its 2025 form.
Season Snapshot
- 17th in the drivers’ championship with five points
- Best finish of eighth place at the Monaco Grand Prix
- Also scored points with a 10th-place finish earlier in the season
- Williams sits ninth in the constructors’ championship with just 11 points combined
A Complicated Monaco Weekend
Albon’s best result of the year came with some added drama. After letting Sainz through and helping back up the field to assist his team-mate’s pit strategy at Monaco, Albon admitted frustration when Sainz was later hit in a red flag restart and retired anyway. Albon still salvaged eighth place, calling it his best weekend of the season.
Sharing Williams’s Wider Struggles
Albon’s season mirrors the broader difficulties detailed in our Carlos Sainz season update, with Williams’s FW48 chassis running significantly overweight since pre-season testing. The team has not scored a double points finish more than once all year.
Looking Ahead to Baku
Like Sainz, Albon’s remaining hopes for a stronger points haul in 2026 rest heavily on Williams’s planned upgrade package targeting the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, part of a wider recovery effort covered in the current constructors’ standings.
Conclusion
Albon’s Monaco result showed flashes of what Williams can still achieve on the right weekend, but with just five points across 14 rounds, 2026 has been a season to survive rather than celebrate for the British-Thai driver.