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<\/p>\nThere were mixed emotions for the team when the chequered flag flew at the 2025 British Grand Prix on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Alex Albon produced a last-lap moment to remember, pulling off a great around-the-outside overtake on Fernando Alonso at Copse to seal P8, having started P13.<\/p>\n
Carlos Sainz looked on course for more points at Silverstone, but contact from Charles Leclerc late on dropped him down the order with damage, ultimately finishing P12.<\/p>\n
After a hard-fought 52 laps in classic British weather, here\u2019s how it sounded on the radio as both of our drivers reached the finish.<\/p>\n
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James Urwin (JU), Alex\u2019s Race Engineer, was the first to react after that Copse move, with Team Principal James Vowles (JV) also jumping on to offer his thoughts.<\/p>\n
JU: Lovely stuff \u2013 P8, P8. Epic move.<\/p>\n
AA: Yes, yes! Well done, everyone.<\/p>\n
JV: Well done, Alex. Really tricky conditions all race long. I think there were moments where we just weren’t quick enough and then as it dried up it got into those grip conditions you were flying at the end, well done. Lots to learn but I’m looking forward to Spa where we take a step again.<\/p>\n
AA: Yep, well done James. I think we were struggling a bit there on the Inters, but it came alive on the slicks. Was Nico third?<\/p>\n
JU: He was, yeah. It\u2019s a bit of a topsy-turvy order. Hulkenberg 3rd, Hamilton 4th, Verstappen 5th, Gasly 6th, Stroll 7th. He was 3.5s ahead of us. Another three or four laps and it would have been more interesting.<\/p>\n
AA: Yeah, well congrats to Nico \u2013 what a legend! That\u2019s his first podium, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n
JU: I believe so. Lovely job, well done. That was really good. Nice move on the last lap, similar to Turn 15 last year.<\/p>\n
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Carlos and Gaetan chatting earlier in the British GP race weekend<\/p>\n
Gaetan Jego (GJ), Carlos\u2019 Race Engineer, was by the Spaniard\u2019s side through a frustrating finale, with James also chiming in to offer his support post-race.<\/p>\n
CS: Incredible. This year my luck is incredible.<\/p>\n
GJ: It was a good effort, nothing you could do. There was contact and quite a bit of loss<\/p>\n
CS: Yeah, but it\u2019s tiring. There\u2019s always something happening. It\u2019s incredible.<\/p>\n
GJ: You know we\u2019re building up to something, it\u2019s OK.<\/p>\n
JV: Carlos, a really difficult race. Well done. Situations occur, they weren’t in your control. That was outside of it. I think my reflection is we had to park our pace at the end. That car was too damaged. We didn’t get it all right. Well done for persisting on this. I’m looking forward to the Spa where we move forward again to the field.<\/p>\n
CS: Yeah, no worries. It\u2019s just I wish I had a bit more luck this year, but every time something happens.<\/p>\n
JV: Yeah, I feel the same way. Let\u2019s come back stronger.<\/p>\n
CS: Some feedback on the pace at the end. There was good pace on the slicks, but a lot of learning. Some good learning for the next one in Belgium.<\/p>\n
Williams x Fresh Ego Kid:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were mixed emotions for the team when the chequered flag flew at the 2025 British Grand Prix…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-247716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114817070941693784","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}