Albon makes his return to F1 after a year out with Williams, teaming up with Nicho🍃las Latifi.

The Thai driver struggled during his stint alongsi🌌de Max Verstappen, ultimately being dropped in favour of Sergio Perez at the end o🦋f 2020. 

His year out wasn’t enti♛rely wasted as he was Red Bull’s test and reserve driver, fulfilling an important role in the team’s simulator.

Despite Williams and Red Bull’s﷽ varying degrees of success in the last 15 years, Alboꦍn sees similarities between the two teams.

“Honestly, they are ver💯y similar,” Albon said in Barcelona. 🐭“The way that Formula 1 teams are structured now as well, they all have similar structures within them. I honestly can’t tell you there’s a standout with either of them which I think is a good thing. It’s very professional, very positive within the engineering group that I am working with here trackside at Williams and it all feels good. 

“As I said just now, we’re in a good position where we can start already focusing on performance which is exciting🍷 as a driver you can star🏅t to the tyre guys, speaking to the performance guys [about] what we can do. 

“Structures internally are slightly different i📖n terms of how many people are working on what area of the team and things like that, how they designate jobs at the track. No, obviously they’re working in a very similar way. If there was something that stood out I would tell you but there honestly isn’t.”

Albon will be back in action for Williams when testing gets underway later꧂ t🐓his week on Thursday in Bahrain.