Alex Albon: Why I'm ready to be a champion (E226)
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2023
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Alex Albon is one of the most exciting talents in Formula 1, currently driving for Williams Racing. He has previously raced for Scuderia Toro Rosso and Red Bull Racing where he was teammate to the current Drivers Champion, Max Verstappen.
This episode was recorded across two occasions, with the first taking place at the Williams Racing headquarters just days after the now infamous Qatar Grand Prix, which saw Alex need medical attention due to the heat in the car. The second half was recorded in London when Alex returned from an early exit in Sao Paulo.
The conversations cover Alex’s rise through the ranks of racing, and his struggles when he was dropped by Red Bull, electing to stay with the team and improve the car for his teammates. Alex opens up on the learnings he has taken through difficult periods in his career and his personal life, which he believes have enabled him to develop the mental resilience needed to become a champion.
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| 0:00.0 | You're about to hear a conversation with one of the most exciting talents on the Formula One grid |
| 0:05.0 | and if you want to know the truth about what it was really like driving in the recent Qatar Grand Prix, |
| 0:10.0 | where a number of drivers ended up, either in a hospital bed or on a drip after the |
| 0:14.8 | demands of that Grand Prix then download the high-performance app right now. |
| 0:20.4 | Hi there you're listening to high-performance the award-winning podcast that unlocks the minds of some of the most fascinating people on the planet. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm Jake Humphrey and alongside Professor Damien Hughes we learn from the stories, successes, and struggles of our guests, |
| 0:35.0 | allowing us all to explore, be challenged, |
| 0:38.1 | and to grow. |
| 0:39.3 | Here's what's coming up today. |
| 0:41.4 | When you go into the car, that's my space. |
| 0:44.6 | That's where I belong, so everything goes away at that point. |
| 0:47.6 | We put our helmet on, and soon as that helmet goes on, and our ear plugs go going, we're alone. |
| 0:56.0 | I want to make this teamwork. |
| 0:57.6 | I really do believe that. |
| 0:59.3 | I enjoy working this team. |
| 1:00.9 | I enjoy this family field that this team has and I feel like I'm at near my peak. I'm ready |
| 1:07.5 | I'm ready to win races to fight for a championship. If that call came through, so confident in where I am right now called |
| 1:15.8 | to Wells back then, that I know I could join any team and I know I would do a good job. |
| 1:27.1 | So today we welcome one of the nicest guys in sports Alex Albonne to the podcast he's one of the most talented Formula One drivers of the modern era but he's also |
| 1:32.0 | a man who knows the pain of top-level sports. |
| 1:35.1 | Now here's the really interesting thing. We've never recorded a podcast episode like this |
| 1:39.6 | before because we actually recorded this in two separate days. |
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