2025 United States Grand Prix Sprint & Qualifying

James Vowles, Team Principal: It has been a brilliant day for us. The team walks away with nine more points in this World Championship with both Alex and Carlos contributing to the huge points haul. It’s the first Sprint podium we have ever achieved as Williams which is a proud moment for me. We are in a strong position with Carlos tomorrow, starting P9, and I think we have a good opportunity in the race. With Alex, we’ve been struggling with a differential issue across the weekend and he did brilliantly in the Sprint to get those points in sixth. The team did a fantastic job rebuilding the back of the car before qualifying and the changes were positive, however they significantly changed the balance of the car which meant he wasn’t able to extract everything out of it and it was more unpredictable to him. I am confident that the platform he has for tomorrow will be strong and he’ll be back fighting towards points.

Carlos Sainz: Today was another good day and I’m happy with my laps. We executed a clean session and pace felt strong. Unfortunately the wind picked up for the last part of qualifying and our car becomes a bit trickier to drive, so overall P9 was more or less our spot today.I have confidence on my race pace for tomorrow so I hope to give these great fans another exciting race to cheer on! We'll aim to move forwards through the pack and hopefully stay close to the cars at the front of the grid. Our ultimate goal is to bring home some more points for the team, so let’s race!

Alex Albon: It was a decent start to the day with the Sprint, we were able to stay out of trouble and make up some positions to bring home a few points. We figured out there was a differential issue with the car on Friday, and we couldn’t make changes for the Sprint, so going in to qualifying the balance and setup was completely new. We need to have a look at the data properly, but by resolving the issue the balance was very different and I experienced more understeer. Generally, the changes made a better and more predictable car, which is positive, but it needed a bit of tuning to accommodate the different setups and we didn’t have the time as it was straight into Q1. My final push lap time was deleted for track limits which is a shame as we should have been through to Q2 at least. Let’s see what tomorrow brings.