Williams Formula 1 drivers Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon have reminisced about their favourite off-track memory of the 2025 season, when they raced kit cars around Interlagos for the Brazilian Grand Prix drivers' parade.
The drivers had branded kit cars with one driver per team and a pickup-style seat across the back for the passenger. As Sainz and Albon walked to the grid and clocked that there was one car per team, they quickly raced each other to the driver's seat. It was ultimately Albon who got behind the wheel before pushing flat out down the start/finish straight, only to realise it wasn't as fast as they would have liked.
"It's still on track, but it's off track. It was the Brazil [drivers' parade]," Albon said during the Williams Team Torque podcast.
Sainz added: "That's definitely where we've laughed the most. Like we were just for five minutes laughing nonstop. Like we couldn't talk for five minutes."
Both Albon and his Spanish team-mate spotted a shortcut from Turn 4 to Turn 12 and made the most of the opportunity. They ended up finishing third behind the Alpine and Ferrari kit cars.
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"When we knew our car was not quick and then the kind of the intuition to be like, how to win," Albon continued, before Sainz added: "The moment we took the decision to say we're going to shortcut the hell out of this track. We're going to do instead of 13 corners, we're going to do five corners, and we're going to cut across wherever we need to cut across to get to P1 at the end of this lap. I enjoyed that.
"From the moment we took that decision to the moment we arrived at the finish line, there might have been three to four minutes where we couldn't stop laughing."
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