Logan Sargeant has been given the green light to race at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix despite failing to qualify.
There is a rule which states a driver must set a time which is within 107% of the time set by the pole-sitter in order to qualify for the event. Sargeant failed to hit that target in a disrupted qualifying session for the only American racer in Formula 1.
He will start the race in Jeddah dead last after all three of his attempts to set a representative time failed. He though he had done so at the first attempt, but had his time deleted for crossing the pit entry line at the very end of the lap.
