Alexander
Albon

Alexander Albon was born in London on 23 March 1996 and grew up in Suffolk. His father, Nigel, was also a racing driver. Albon began karting in 2005 and joined the Red Bull Junior Team in 2008. In 2010 he won both the CIK-FIA World Cup and the European Championship in karting. He races under the Thai flag.

He moved into single-seaters in 2012 with the Formula Renault Eurocup, where he failed to score, and Red Bull dropped him at the end of the year. After two more seasons in the Eurocup he finished third overall in 2014. In 2015 he took seventh place in the FIA European Formula 3 Championship. In 2016 he won four races in GP3 with ART and was runner-up to his team-mate Charles Leclerc. In Formula 2 he finished tenth for ART in 2017, then third for DAMS in 2018, behind George Russell and Lando Norris.

Albon made his Formula One debut for Toro Rosso at the 2019 Australian Grand Prix and scored his first points in the next race in Bahrain, finishing ninth. After the Hungarian Grand Prix, the twelfth race of the season, he replaced Pierre Gasly at Red Bull alongside Max Verstappen. Fourth place in Japan was his best result of that year. He ended the season eighth in the championship and was named Rookie of the Year. In 2020 he drove for Red Bull and finished seventh in the standings. He took his first podium at the Tuscan Grand Prix, the first for a Thai driver in Formula One, and added a second in Bahrain.

For 2021 Sergio Pérez took his seat. Albon stayed with Red Bull as test and reserve driver and raced in the DTM for AF Corse, winning a race at the Nürburgring as the first Thai driver to do so in the series. In 2022 he returned to Formula One with Williams, replacing George Russell, and finished nineteenth in the championship. He was thirteenth in 2023 and sixteenth in 2024, and in 2025 he finished eighth in the standings with Williams. In 2026 he continues at Williams, alongside Carlos Sainz.

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