Williams’ Logan Sargeant admits asking F1 rival for help to find ‘unimaginable’ gains

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Logan Sargeant admits he is now asking Williams teammates Alex Albon ‘a lot more’ questions to try and help the American make ‘unimaginable’ progress in Formula 1.

The 22-year-old has endured an often frustrating rookie season as he continues to fight for a future in Formula 1. Williams have given Sargeant until the end of the campaign to prove he merits a second year. His seat is now the only drive still to be confirmed for the 2024 season.

Williams promoted Sargeant to F1 after only one season in Formula 2 having shown promise in the feeder series. The Fort Lauderdale, Florida native took two Feature race wins en route to P4 in the standings. But he has only scored one point in Formula 1 to the 27 Albon boasts.

Sargeant finally scored his first point in F1 at the US GP

Albon has continually taken the Williams car to and beyond its limits to put the Grove outfit seventh in the constructors’ championship. Sargeant only scored his first point as a Formula 1 driver at the United States GP after Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc were disqualified.

But despite a lack of points – just Nyck De Vries (0) has scored fewer this year among the 22 drivers to have raced – Sargeant believes his pace has improved after the summer break. He showed promise in qualifying at the Japanese GP, for example, before making a costly error.

Sargeant admits asking Williams teammate Albon for help

Sargeant feels asking Albon for advice has helped the Williams rookie unlock more potential from within himself of late. The 27-year-old’s assistance is letting the American understand a greater deal of how the little things can make a huge deal in F1 compared to all junior series.

‘[I am asking Albon] a lot more recently, just to try to help me on that front,” Sargeant notes, as quoted by RaceFans. “It’s been moving me forward. Those are the small things that aren’t natural to me.

“But the more you start to understand them, the more you start to extract from them, and the amount of time that you can find from those things is unimaginable.”

The tools available in a Formula 1 car are among the aspects Sargeant feels he still needs to fully get a handle on. He believes understanding how they affect the balance of the car will unlock even more pace. It will also let him get his tyres in the right operating window faster.

He adds: “I think the biggest bit to keep working on is the little things that you would never really do in a junior formulae. So, using the tools more and starting earlier in the weekend in that sense, and understanding how they can be used to help you more.

“There’s so much time there that you might not even realise. But those small things make a big difference to tyre warm-up, stuff like that.”