Sargeant to drive Alexander Albon’s repaired car at the Japanese GP – 2024-04-05 05:39:55

This Thursday, the American pilot Logan Sargeant confirmed that he will be competing in the Japanese Grand Prix with the repaired car that his partner used in Williams, Alexander Albonbefore crashing in the first free practice at Albert Park, in the last Australian GP.

“It’s the repaired one,” Sargeant said when asked which car he will race this weekend. “Simply because the workload to change the cars again would be too much for the mechanics. But the chassis repair has gone better than expected.”

After Albon’s accident, the team reported that it did not have a spare chassis to get Albon to drive his own car in the race in Melbourne, and Williams ended up resolving in a way that was not free from being controversial: to dispense with Sargeant and instead gave his car to Albon so he could compete, while the FW46 was flown back to the UK for repairs.

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What did Sargeant say about the situation Williams is going through?

Speaking about Albon’s crash in Melbourne, Sargeant said his attention was quickly drawn to Williams’ delicate spare parts situation: “I don’t think I really, at least I, hadn’t thought about it before that. If I’m honest, when I see Alex crash, the first thing that goes through my mind is: ‘I know we’re short on spare parts.’”

“Of course, I was a little worried about our situation as a team. But it’s one of the hardest things we’ve had to deal with at the beginning of this season: not having those big safety nets.”

However, Sargeant made it clear that this situation will not alter the way he will approach his driving heading into Sunday. “It is, again, a situation that we had to deal with for the first three races. We went to Saudi Arabia in the same situation. And, of course, it’s one of those things you have to be careful with. But at the same time, you can’t be more careful, this is Formula 1.”

“If you’re careful, you’re not going to be fast. So, really, you don’t even think about it, you have to be committed, confident and hope that nothing goes wrong,” said the American, who also He was honest and stated that he “understood the reasons” behind the decision to leave him without a car to give Albon the opportunity to race in Australia.