Christian Horner has hailed Alex Albon’s “racecraft” as the reason why he is making more of a success of his Red Bull career than Pierre Gasly did.

Gasly and Albon were switched around in the 2019 F1 season’s summer break. The Frenchman was dropped from being Max Verstappen’s Red Bull team-mate back down to the other constructor owned by the Austrian energy drink giant, then named Toro Rosso, with Albon making the opposite move.

Thirteen months on, the situation remains the same and both drivers have recently clocked up notable firsts. Gasly claimed a shock maiden F1 victory in the Italian Grand Prix for AlphaTauri, as Toro Rosso have been rebranded, while Albon recorded his debut podium finish in the following weekend’s Tuscan Grand Prix.