The Saudi Arabia Grand Prix was one for the memory at the beginning of the 2025 season of the F1 for the ‘Williams Racing’ team. Although his two pilots had scored in the same race in the last GP of China, it was the first race of the calendar in which his two competitors crossed the finish line in points. Carlos Sainz Jr. stayed with the eighth step (his best result of 2025), while Alexander Albon closely followed his garage partner and ended in the ninth square of La Grrilla.
Carlos Sainz during the development of the race in the Saudi Arabia GP.@Williamsring
In this way, the team based in the United Kingdom added six crucial points for the World Cup in the Queen of Motor Sports. It has even been the best season start for the Grove squad in the last nine years, when Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas starred in a 65 -point start in the 2016 campaign of Formula 1.
The key behind the best result of the season
In addition to his recovery after his slow stop in Boxes, the Madrid pilot began to receive continuous indications on the radio of the team, crucial so that both cars end at the points for the second time in the campaign. However, it was not until Tour 34 when in the car of ’55’ it was heard: “There is a probable ‘Singapore Plan'”, starting the route in the last phase of the race.
Also, during the last 15 turns in the Jeddah layout, Carlos Sainz began to lower the revolutions so that Alexander Albon managed to enter DRS zone and thus defend himself from the attack of an Hadjar Isack who had been rolling faster than the Thai pilot. “Hadjar in middle compounds will never happen to us. If we begin to press now it will not happen to us,” said the Spanish pilot, who called “paranoids” to his team.
Hadjar in middle compounds will never happen to us.
Carlos Sainz Jr.
However, Carlos attended the orders of his team and continued defending his garage partner from any threat of Racing Bull (RB). In this way, both Albon and Sainz received updates of the distance that separated both pilots, next to the rhythm of Hadjar, which allowed to cross the finish line with the best result to date.
The explanation of the ‘Singapore Plan’
James Vowles, director of Williams, clarified at the end of the race the name of the strategy used in the GP. During the race it could be heard that we use the words; … James (Urwin) used them badly; He said Singapore ‘, but that can be misunderstood, “the team leader told’ Channel 4 ‘.
“One of the first things I saw in Carlos and that struck me completely was how he took advantage of the advantage in Singapore to win a few years ago. The conversation we ended up was how he did it, what he was doing at that time. On Sunday morning we talked about a DRS train is one of the few situations that can protect you. There is only one place to advance, and if you get into a DRS train, you should be quite sure. Action in the morning, “VoWles concluded.