Williams adds US driver Sargeant to academy ranks on long-time-frame deal
Sargeant, 20, completed third in final 300 and sixty five days’s FIA Formula 3 championship, but became as soon as unable to switch up the ladder because of the an absence of price range, prompting him to solution to the sequence in 2021 where he completed seventh.
Sargeant had been because of the test in IndyCar for AJ Foyt Racing at Barber Motorsports Park next week, handiest for the running to be known as off.
Sooner than this weekend’s United States Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, Williams launched that the American driver had joined its young driver academy on a protracted-time-frame agreement.
“I’m happy to be joining the Williams Racing Driver Academy,” Sargeant stated. “It’s a team without a longer handiest an improbable history, but a gigantic notice say of bringing young talent into Formula 1. I’m without a doubt excited to begin up working with the team and could well presumably’t wait to hit the ground running.”
Williams stated that Sargeant would utter his role to “habits simulator work and support with vehicle model as allotment of a protracted-time-frame agreement, turning into fully immersed into the team both trackside and on the manufacturing facility in Grove.”
“I’m incredibly delighted to welcome Logan to the Williams Racing Driver Academy,” stated Capito.
Logan Sargeant, Charouz Racing Machine
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“He’s demonstrated his talent in FIA Formula 3, consistently handing over sturdy ends in an especially competitive self-discipline.
“I’m proud that Williams will play a allotment in supporting the development and increase of but every other talented young driver.”
Williams has a replacement of young drivers linked to its academy, collectively with 2020 F1 debutant Jack Aitken, W Collection champion Jamie Chadwick and Formula 2 racer Roy Nissany.
It marks Sargeant’s first affiliation with an F1 team, having impressed all the plan thru his junior profession with a top-three attain in British Formula 4 and a podium on the Macau Grand Prix in 2019 with Carlin.
Sargeant had been weighing up a switch into sportscar racing earlier than returning to F3 this 300 and sixty five days, main to 2 appearances in the European Le Mans Collection for the TF Sport-lag Racing Team Turkey.