Formula One driver Alex Albon comes from a family of racers. His father was a British race car driver, and his mother was born and raised in Thailand.
Alex Albon is a London-born Thai professional race car driver in Formula One for Williams Racing. It all started when he began racing cars competitively in 2005 when he was just eight years old. The professional F1 racer has been remarkable with his high-level achievements. He is the first Thai F1 driver to reach the World Championship podium.
Previously, Albon competed for Scuderia Toro Rosso and Red Bull Racing in Formula One and AF Corse in DTM. In 2019, he made his Formula One debut.
Meet Alex Albon Parents Kankamol Albon And Nigel Albon
Albon was welcomed into this world by his father, Nigel Albon, and his mother, Kankamol Albon. His father was the one to introduce him to the cars as he is a former race car driver himself.
The last game he drove in was in the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia for Team Vertu in 2007. the sixty-five-year-old Nigel competed in the Renault Clio Cup in 1993, finishing sixth in points.
He drove a Renault 19 for Harlow Motorsport in the Total Independents Cup during the 1994 British Touring Car Championship (BTCC), finishing equal fifth with 108 points.
Furthermore, in 2001, he competed in one FIA GT Championship event for the Gamon Porsche squad. Nigel spent the following three years in the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia, starting in 2005 and finishing fourth in 2007.
On the other hand, his mother, Kankamol, worked in a family-owned car dealership. However, things got ugly in the Albon household when his mother was arrested for illegally dealing with cars.
Kankamol was a scam artist imprisoned when he was 15 years old. In 2012, she was found guilty of fraud surrounding the selling of prestige automobiles from her Smallbridge Hall house near Bures.
She marketed expensive Ferraris, Bentleys, and Rolls Royces to investors with the promise of reselling them for rapid returns. During the inquiry, about 200 items were seized from her.
She got arrested in 2008 after confessing false representation and scamming the public. Alex’s mother received a six-year prison term for a £7.5 million vehicle swindle but was freed in 2015. Kankamol stated that she has paid for her crime, Alex has forgiven her, and they are on good terms now.
Alex Albon Has Four Siblings
Albon has a big family of 7, including himself. He had a fun childhood growing up with four siblings. The racer has three sisters and a younger brother.
Alex has one younger brother named Luca Albon and three sisters named Chloe Albon, Zoe Albon, and Alicia Albon. The siblings have kept their personal life private. Thus, there is no information on how old each of them is.
Alex Albon Ethnicity And Nationality
Albon was born Alexander Albon Ansusinha on March 23, 1996, at the Portland Hospital in London, England. Similarly, Alex was born to a British father and a Thai mother.
Hence, he is of mixed ethnicity of British-Thai and holds dual nationality of Britain and Thailand. However, the race car driver races under the Thai flag and practices Buddhism.