Damon Hill took to his social media account to take a humorous dig at Williams as the British team's mind-blowing records came to light. Hill, from his Instagram account, reacted to Williams' mega improvement coming into 2025, as compared to the last seven seasons.
Williams' Alex Albon collected six points at last weekend's Italian GP, and with this, the british outfit reached 86 points in the Constructors' Championship. As an outcome, they claimed more points than they picked in their last seven seasons starting from 2018.
As this statistics became known, Hill, from his social media account posted it on his story and took a dig. The former F1 racer mentioned it and wrote,
"But is this really progress? Is it? Really?"
Interestingly, the Grove-based team scored 28 points last season and 17 points in 2023. Their points tally in 2022 was 8 points, and they had 23 points in 2021. The British outfit did not score any points in 2020 and gathered only one point in 2019. In 2018, the starting year of these statistics, they had 7 just points, making it to 84 points in seven years.
Williams boss shared his opinion after impressive Italian GP
Williams had an impressive outing at last weekend's Italian GP. The racers Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon, qualified in P13 and P14, respectively. Bit they had a better result in the race, as Sainz finished in P11, while Albon came home in P7, picking up all-important six points.
"Fantastic weekend overall. Alex scores six valuable points that are really going to make the difference against our rivals. You can see how close this championship is and it will remain that way for the further eight rounds we have remaining.”
However, Vowles was concerned with Sainz's result as he failed to score as point. Moreover, Sainz performance this season was far from underwhelming. Speaking about this, here's what the Grove-based team racer further added,
"There’s a however, there’s a but. We don’t have two cars in the points. Carlos did brilliantly in terms of qualifying, his pace was there, but we got caught up in an incident and it meant he wasn’t able to score points for the team and yet a ninth place was very much on the table for him in that circumstance.” (Via Motorsportweek)
As of now, Williams ae in P5 in the Constructors' Championship with 86 points, and they led Aston Martin (P6) by 24 points. The side's racers, Alex Albon, in in P7 and 70 points, and his teammates, Carlos Sainz, is in P18 with 16 points.