Boss Horner defends struggling Albon
Jul.13 - Red Bull boss Christian Horner has defended Alexander Albon following a round of criticism in Austria.
Some have observed that, while the Mercedes team can count on the fully competitive services of Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas, Albon is normally off the pace of his Red Bull teammate Max Verstappen.
In Austria, the British-born Thai driver was consistently about half a second per lap shy of the sister car, and by the pitstop on Sunday he was half a minute behind Verstappen.
Team boss Horner, though, insisted: "Alex's was a race of two halves.
"He had problems in the first but in the second he drove very well," he told motorsport-magazin.com.
"We have to understand this together with him and help him to feel comfortable in the car with a lot of fuel.
"But the pace was strong in the second half," Horner added. "He fought very well against Perez and at that point he was three or four tenths faster than Bottas, who had fresher tyres."
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Deja vu. Red Bull's MO is to support a driver right up to the moment that they dump him/her. IMO, still a chance we see VET riding a bull. Multi-21 rides again.
I disagree. Albon did wellbat firstvrace and is a solidvdriver. I don't see Seb at RB again, but AT makes sense, and that would be exciting.
Love Albon tho... He just needs some more time... and to break,his HAM jinx.
He is hardly struggling he has adapted very well to his time at red bull he would have been on the podium in the first race and he got a good haul of points in the second are we forgetting young max is only doing slightly better it's 2 races in for God's sake