In review: Alex’s 2025 campaign
We look back on a memorable season for AA23
Published
29 DEC 2025
Est. reading time
4 min
There can be little doubt that 2025 was a successful year for Alex, as he enjoyed his best season since teaming up with Atlassian Williams Racing.
The numbers speak for themselves in that regard: Our Thai racer secured points returns on 12 separate occasions while amassing a total of 73 points — 61 more than last term.
Those displays included four P5 finishes, too, the first of which arrived as early as Round 1 at a wet Albert Park Circuit.
Albono’s performance in Australia got the season off to the perfect start, as he qualified in P6 before climbing a further position in Sunday’s Grand Prix.
It was AA23’s first fifth-place finish with Williams and he was understandably delighted:
“I am very happy,” he said, following the race. “Honestly, when you feel like the car's good and you feel like you're driving well, you just feel like you've got it covered, in a weird way.
“We've had these races before, and I knew that as a team we are good in these 'random' races, we get our elbows out.”
It wasn’t just a case of Williams’ FW47 performing well in difficult conditions, though, as the following rounds proved.
P7 and P9 finishes in China and Japan raised expectations for the coming months, with Alex reaching Q3 and placing among the points in all three of his opening races.
And while a mid-April visit to Bahrain was less productive, it wasn’t long before Albono was consistently back in the top-ten — claiming points in the next four consecutive races.
A P9 in Saudi Arabia was the precursor to arguably the campaign’s most productive period, as Alex produced back-to-back P5s in Miami and Imola.
The latter of those results saw the 29-year-old battle hard with Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc for fifth position — and fourth place could even have been possible, had it not been for a late Safety Car.
Alex confirmed as much post-race, saying: “P4 was possible today if the Safety Car didn’t come out at the end or if you take away the Charles incident, but I’m not going to say I’m disappointed with P5!”
He later added: “I’m still very happy with the race; on pure pace we were running P4, P5, so we were able to extend the first stint and that set us up for the whole race.
“The consistent pace we’re showing opens up the window for what else we can do, so let’s keep going and enjoying it.”
Albono and the team certainly did keep going, with Williams claiming double-points in their next outing after a superb strategic effort in Monaco.
First-class teamwork from Alex and Carlos Sainz saw the duo help each other at various points of the race, to secure P9 and P10, respectively, in the principality.
A more challenging period was to follow with a trio of DNFs in Spain, Canada and Austria, but it wasn’t too long until another hot streak arrived — kickstarted by a masterful drive in changeable conditions that yielded a P8 at Silverstone.
And though the rain didn’t let up later that month in Spa, either, our Thai racer was nonetheless able to improve further and finish sixth at the Belgian GP, ahead of multiple F1 title-winner Lewis Hamilton.
“We’re top of the midfield so that’s always nice and I managed to hold off Lewis, which is never easy,” Alex said, when reflecting on his performance in the Ardennes Forest.
“I struggled a little bit in the rain, which is to be expected, so I lost that position to George [Russell] early on but after that, we settled in and were able to maintain position and finish strong.
“It was important to not make mistakes with Lewis behind, but I think his downforce worked in our favour.
“As a team we did a great job as it’s not easy beating those top teams, so it’s good to see our [latest upgrade] package is working well.”
August saw an underwhelming 15th-place finish at the Hungarian GP, but Alex came back from the summer shutdown refreshed and raring to go.
He returned with a bang by claiming his fourth P5 of 2025 in Zandvoort, after gaining an incredible ten places from a P15 Qualifying position.
Remarkably, Alex then produced a similar feat the following round, when he climbed seven positions to reach P7 in Monza.
“Yes! Yes! That was a nice one,” he said on the radio, in an excited response that summed up a great weekend at the Temple of Speed.
The campaign’s latter races didn’t quite hit those same heights, but there was still time for Alex to record another first in 2025, as he claimed his maiden Sprint points with Williams at the United States GP.
That P6 in Austin added three more points to his tally, with a total of 73 proving to be enough for eighth place in the Drivers’ Standings.
Alex also contributed over half of Williams’ points, as they finished with 137 — enough for fifth in the Constructors’ Championship.
It was a promising year all round, then, as attention now turns to F1’s new regulations and the forthcoming 2026 season.
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