Former F2 frontrunner Sargeant was drafted on this yr to fit in alongside Alex Albon and located it exhausting to match his extra skilled team-mate whereas making his fair proportion of rookie errors.
However in current races, the American has made progress, most notably with ending thirteenth in Austria and simply exterior the factors in Silverstone, his finest consequence thus far. However the web result’s that he is presently nonetheless the one full-time driver to not have scored any factors but.
When requested to sum up his season in Belgium, Sargeant replied: “Ups and downs, [I’m] not the place I need to be.
“Over the previous couple of rounds, I really feel like I am a lot nearer. I really feel like I’ve seen actually good development as of late and that is an important factor.
“I believe I would like to wash some issues up. I believe, as a workforce collectively, we are able to clear some issues up and that is what we have to give attention to going into the second a part of the season.”
Sargeant has needed to take his time adapting to the Williams FW43, which hasn’t been the best automobile to drive and has lacked downforce in comparison with the competitors.
Logan Sargeant, Williams FW45
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“It is really very, very small issues however small issues that make a giant distinction,” the Florida native stated when requested to increase on his driving model tweaks.
“There have been factors within the yr the place I used to be merely holding the brake too late into the corners and slowing the minimal velocity down an excessive amount of. I’ve gotten on high of that.
“Simply inputs in high-speed corners, inflicting instabilities, issues like that. There are numerous issues. It is all simply very minor driving traits that wanted to be adjusted.
“By way of extracting all the things from the automobile, whether or not that is in quali sim, whether or not that is in race trim, simply the best way the automobile must be pushed, I am simply shifting in the direction of that step-by-step in lots of, many alternative methods.”
Logan Sargeant, Williams W45
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Whereas fellow rookie Nyck de Vries has already come and gone after being changed at AlphaTauri by Daniel Ricciardo, Sargeant says he’s not placing an excessive amount of stress on himself to try to match Albon, who has had a particularly robust season to this point.
And thus far, Sargeant has acquired nothing however public backing from workforce principal James Vowles, who wasn’t in place but when academy member Sargeant was handed the drive.
However the 23-year-old has admitted to being annoyed with himself each time he did not extract the ultimate drop of efficiency out of his machine.
“I would not say I’ve put an insane quantity of stress on myself,” he defined. “I believe it has been mentally difficult what number of issues must be accomplished and never having a lot time away from it to form of reset. It is simply form of mentally draining relatively than tremendous difficult.
“Clearly, I’ve excessive self-expectations. I need to drive effectively, I’ve annoyed myself loads of occasions this yr once I have not accomplished what I might have accomplished and that is what it comes all the way down to, it is me anticipating to get essentially the most out of myself.
“And at occasions I really feel like I’ve simply missed the mark on that just a few occasions. And it is about cleansing that up, stringing it collectively higher, executing higher. And I really feel like that is the following step. As a result of I really feel like I now have the items to do in any respect.”
Requested by Motorsport.com when he considers his debut yr to achieve success, Sargeant stated: “I do not actually have a set goal. It comes again to feeling as if I’ve extracted all the things on a weekend.
“We do not at all times have a automobile to attain factors, so it simply comes all the way down to me feeling like I’ve accomplished all the things I might, gotten all the things out of it, begin stringing issues collectively higher.
“And wherever that leaves me, that will be what I contemplate a hit in a weekend.”
Further reporting by Matt Kew
