Alex: “With this new package we're in a good place”

Alex Albon was our racer on duty in Thursday’s FIA pre-race press conference at Silverstone, joined by Lewis Hamilton, Charles Leclerc, Esteban Ocon and Yuki Tsunoda.

Ahead of this weekend’s British Grand Prix, our number 23 took questions from the world’s press – here’s what he had to say.

I actually grew up around this area. I learned my ARKS test - which is how you get your racing licence - here, so you could say this was the very start of my racing career.

I learned how to drive. They asked you “what does your right foot do? What does your left foot do?” All that stuff. I don't know what I said. I'm sure I said it correctly. I said right foot is go and left foot is brake.

They ask you about the flags as well. No track limits there though…

High speed is where it stands out. It's also very windy here.

I feel like around this kind of circuit, where it is quite open, and I'm sure these guys will agree with me, but wind is very difficult to master in tracks like here.

Tailwind and headwind is changing the balance so much, so to be on the limit throughout the whole corner, it's very easy to underdrive a part of the corner which has a bit of a headwind and you can use a little bit of that wind to push a little bit more into a corner.

To be honest with you, I think Austria was still a great weekend for us. I just think Canada was a super weekend.

We were still happy with Austria, the pace was great. I think during the whole weekend our worst result was 13th, which was the Sprint race.

And even then we were running in seventh. I have to say, as a team, we're confident. We feel like with this new package we're in a good place.

There is no secret that the last couple of circuits have suited us a little bit more than the ones we're going to go to.

Silverstone? Maybe not quite as good as Canada and the Red Bull Ring, but still good. So let's see.