Williams enjoyed a mini resurgence in 2023 as James Vowles took the Grove operation from the bottom of the F1 standings to seventh position during his first season as team boss. It’s fair to say 2024 has been more challenging so far, including a chassis shortage that dramatically forced one of their cars to miss a race. Here’s the famous outfit’s half-term report…
Best finish
Alex Albon – 9th in Monaco and Britain
If we roll it back a year, Williams had amassed a very respectable 21 points after 14 rounds of the 2023 season, including standout P7 finishes in Canada – where a raft of particularly useful updates were introduced – and Italy.
But the team have just four points to their name at the same stage in 2024, with Red Bull, McLaren, Ferrari, Mercedes and Aston Martin often locking out the points-paying positions and leaving the midfield pack with little to play for.
When opportunities have arisen, though, Alex Albon has been there to take them, underlined by P9 finishes in Monaco – where he did 90% of the job by nailing qualifying – and on home soil in Britain during a weekend of tricky, mixed weather conditions.
Albon is the only Williams driver to finish inside the top 10 places on race day this season, having scored 31 of the squad’s 32 points since teaming up with Logan Sargeant, who will lose his seat to outgoing Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz next year.