A trip to Silverstone when he was six sparked the Red Bull driver’s passion for F1 and he can’t wait to race in the
British Grand Prix
Smiling in the sunshine, Alex Albon simply cannot suppress a playful grin. It is, he concedes, the product of irrepressible glee, of the child with the dreams, now the man who still cannot quite believe on Sunday he will be racing in the British
Grand Prix. “Silverstone is so special to me,” he says. “I still think of myself as a young boy coming to the track, seeing F1 cars and I think: ‘This is crazy’. To be in a race-winning team, a championship-winning team at Silverstone. Just thinking about it gives me goosebumps.”
The Red Bull driver,
London born and of British-Thai descent, races under the Thai flag of his mother’s side of the family. But for Albon this is still very much his home race and feels almost like a homecoming for the 24-year-old. His journey, however, has been far from plain sailing. Crushing setbacks have been juxtaposed by remarkable fortune and reward for hard work – but it all began at Silverstone.