Exclusive: Alex Albon on the unique challenges of F1 flyaways and treasuring home time
Formula 1 gets back going this weekend at the Singapore Grand Prix, after a brief hiatus following the Italian Grand Prix, though Alex Albon’s wait to return to racing has been even longer.
The Williams driver was gearing up for action at Monza before falling ill on Saturday morning, with it turning out that he had been struck with appendicitis.
After a couple of weeks of recovery he’s hoping to go back racing this weekend, though, and then take on the final stages of the F1 season, with the globe set to be spanned from Japan to Austin as the return of the flyaways arrives, with things kicking off in Singapore.
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It’s an intense schedule, with double headers between Singapore and Japan, the US and Mexico, and Brazil and Abu Dhabi, and it provides a different sort of challenge to the one we’ve had earlier this month in terms of the triple header in Europe, between Spa, Zandvoort and Monza.
Indeed, when comparing the two schedules, Albon revealed to Give Me Sport – before suffering appendicitis in Italy – that this final part of the season is probably the bigger challenge, given the amount of miles clocked up, as well as things like marketing obligations.
“It’s different [compared to the triple header.]
“I see it as more taxing these next few races, because, we might be only doing double headers, but we’re doing double headers with huge time zones, with a lot of travel and that bit’s quite tricky.
“And of course, you know, we’re heading over towards the American side and, inevitably, there’s a lot more marketing and interests there.”
Things are going to be pretty wall-to-wall for the drivers between now and 20th November, which sees the final race in Abu Dhabi, and though we’ve