Albon was signed as George Russell’s replacement for this season ♎with the latter making the move up to Mercedes.

The Thai driver spent last season on the sidelines after being dropped by Red Bull in favour of ♉Sergio Perez at the end of 2020.

As prepa꧋rations for the new season get underway, Albon w🦩as at Williams’ factory in Grove for the first time as an official driver.

“It was very exciting to meet who I’m going to be working with an😼d who’s going to be building my car,” Albon said. “It’s a very international team and there are a lot of names that I h🏅aven’t quite got in my head yet, but that will come!

“Other than that, I got to meet my side of the garage in t🌳erms of engineering and through the simul🐭ator work, we learnt how we do our business – what makes me click and what makes them click.”

His first official visit didn’t entirely go to plan as he lost his ♛car keys.

“I already lost my car keys on the first day, but w💙e did find them which was great,” Albon explained.

“I thought I l🅷eft them on the dinner tray so I was about to look into the garbage cans, but fortunately they were just down the side of the sofa in the simulator room, so a trip t𓆏o the garbage was saved!”

Albon says he’s looking forward to workꦐing with a ꧙team ‘that will listen to him’.

“It’s great to be back. It will be my third year in F1, but I feel like I gained a lot of experience over my time,” he added. “I’m not this rookie coming into it now, I know what I’m doing and w🍎hat I wantℱ.

“It’s great to be able to work with this team who will ♌listen to me, we’ll listen to each other and try and get ꦗthe most out of this car.”