Formula One new boy Logan Sargeant is yet to score his first career points following a mixed start to life on the grid, but he’s hoping Baku or his home State race in Miami will be the perfect place to kickstart his season.
The 22-year-old has been on the books of Williams for a year-and-a-half, driving in F2 for Carlin and recording a fourth-place finish in the 2022 season. But following the departure of Nicholas Latifi, a seat in F1 opened up and Sargeant was promoted. The decision to promote Sargeant to F1 has been a much-debated topic - but in the eyes of Williams and team principal James Vowles, who worked with Logan at Mercedes a number of years back, his pace and maturity earned him the seat.
Sargeant’s first race for Williams saw him cross the line in 12th in Bahrain, and the highest among rookie drivers Oscar Piastri and Nyck de Vries. Saudi Arabia, however, wasn’t so fruitful as Sargeant missed out on Q2 after having a lap time deleted for crossing the pit entry line at the end of his run. A 16th-placed finish followed on Sunday and Australia wasn’t any better, DNF’ing after crashing into the back of De Vries’ AlphaTauri on lap one following a restart to finish the final two laps of the race.
