2025 Azerbaijan Grand Prix

James Vowles, Carlos Sainz & Alex Albon react after the 2025 Azerbaijan Grand Prix

Published

21 SEP 2025

Est. reading time

3 min

James Vowles, Team Principal: The result is fantastic. I’ve been fortunate to have a few podiums in my career, but this is one I’ll remember forever. We earned this together as a team - a team that, in recent years, has been at the back, fighting just to survive, and now has battled its way back into this position. Carlos delivered a phenomenal race — an exceptional drive from start to finish, and a joy to watch. You could see and hear just how much it meant to him. I believe in positive momentum, and this gives Carlos a real foundation to build on. With Alex, sometimes you just have those days. He absolutely had the pace — we’ve seen it all weekend — but after that early incident in Qualifying, it was always going to be difficult. Still, he fought back and finished close to the points. For now, I can’t wait to get back to the factory on Monday with the trophy and feel the roof come off the place. This result is a reward for the incredible dedication of the entire workforce, who give so much of their lives to this team.

Carlos Sainz: Finishing P3 today in Baku and being on the podium is an amazing feeling! I think it’s one of my best races ever! We’ve been working so hard and gone through some really big ups and downs, but this makes it all worth it and we need to feel proud as a team. I’m sure this is just a taste of what’s to come for us at Williams and we need to keep working in this direction. Today we had the pace, and we delivered when it mattered, not making any mistakes and scoring a magnificent podium on pure merit. Thank you to the entire team, here and back at home, for your relentless effort and support! And also, to all our Williams fans out there! I can’t wait for more to come! Vamos!

Alex Albon: First of all, today was a great result for the team and for Carlos, it has been a long time coming. Carlos executed a really clean weekend, and the car was quick and so it was great to see that result. Unfortunately for me, I think yesterday’s Qualifying put us on the back foot for the Race. I expected us to be fast today, and we were quick on track when we were able to be in clean air, but the degradation was quite low today so that limited our progress when we were in the DRS train and it got a bit scrappy at times. It’s a very different track in Singapore so we will analyse everything from this weekend and hope to score good points the next time out.

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