Elbon: We had to earn points at all stages.

      Alex Albon, a Williams driver, said at a press conference in Saudi Arabia that from the very beginning of the season he was quite comfortable driving an FW47 car, and he had to earn points at all stages. And he was just unlucky in Bahrain.…

      Alex Albon: "An interesting situation is developing in the middle group of teams. For example, after Melbourne, we could not have predicted that Haas would claim good results, but they won back very confidently. It looks like they've been actively working on refining the car, and it's bearing fruit.

      I think we had a bit of bad luck last Sunday because of the safety car, although we had a good chance of scoring points. But the rivalry in the championship is very intense right now, the results are very tight, and analyzing our work in the first four stages, we see that we are performing quite steadily.

      Our gap from the leaders is the same all the time, while the results of the other teams in the middle of the peloton vary somewhat. Some of them manage to earn points, but not on all tracks, and if we talk about Williams, then we should have finished in the top ten on all four stages.

      Anyway, let's see. I think our task is to keep going about our business and hope that we will do better than our rivals. Personally, I'm glad that I've been comfortable driving the FW47 since the beginning of the season, and I'm enjoying driving more than I did last year.

      It's just that we didn't do the best job in the first part of qualifying in Bahrain, and then it affected the rest of the previous weekend's events. If we talk about the upcoming stage, we will get softer tires than were used on this track before. It is likely that on the tires of softer compounds, driving sensations in high-speed turns may change, we know this from previous experience.

      The track in Jeddah is very fast, and it will be interesting to see what we can achieve with the C5 tires. At each stage of the season, we receive confirmation that the tires are very sensitive to changing conditions, and it is very important to ensure that they operate in the optimal temperature range. When we succeed, we always reach the final of the qualification."