Australian Grand Prix: Williams driver Alexander Albon disqualified from qualifying over fuel irregularity

Alexander Albon has been disqualified from Australian Grand Prix qualifying after Williams failed to provide the FIA with a sufficient fuel sample from his car. The British-born Thai driver had qualified 16th in Melbourne but was unable to return to the pits after being eliminated from Q1, instead stopping out on the track. Ad/> It has now been confirmed that Albon’s team were unable to provide the required one-litre fuel sample from his FW44 car.

Australian Grand Prix'Nice to be back up there' — Hamilton 'positive' ahead of race after nightmare start to seasonAN HOUR AGO However, he will be allowed to start Sunday’s race from the back of the grid. The news compounds a difficult afternoon for Williams, who saw Nicholas Latifi crash out of qualifying after a high-speed collision with Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll. /> The incident, which led to Latifi’s spinning car hitting the barrier at high speed, led to one of two red flags during an action-packed qualifying session.

«For me, it’s quite clear. I’ve just seen the video before coming here,” he told Sky Sports following the crash. „I was preparing my out-lap, and it seems like he just turned into me once I was alongside him.

“There’s not much more to say besides that. I let him through because he was pushing, or so I was told. Then I saw he had aborted the lap, so I wanted to carry on with my own preparation lap.