Formula 1: Logan Sargeant and a very hard accident with Alex Albon’s “cursed” Williams in the first tests of the Japanese Grand Prix

Once again the weekend started off intense Williams In the Formula 1. The thing is Logan Sargeant He suffered a serious accident in the first tests of the Japanese Grand Prix and once again put the historic British team in difficulty. The curious thing is that the car that the American driver broke is the same one that his teammate, the Thai, had destroyed. Alex Albonand which ended up preventing the Florida native from participating in the Australian GP on March 24.

“Excuse me”Sargeant managed to say as soon as his unit crashed into the retaining wall after stepping on the outside of the runway with the right tire.

The funny thing is, in case the mechanics couldn’t fix the car, Sargeant could miss a second consecutive game. Two weekends ago he had to watch the race at the Albert Park circuit from the pits after having to hand over his car to Albon, who had destroyed his car in Friday’s practice.

In what Sargeant called “the most difficult moment” of his career, the only American F1 driver missed Saturday’s qualifying and Sunday’s race at the Albert Park circuit. Williams decided that Albon was more likely to score points.

An excessive punishment, since he ended up paying for someone else’s mistake. Albon had lost control of his unit and slid into the walls in the first practice session before bouncing across the track. He was uninjured but did not take part in the second session while Williams checked whether his car could be repaired. Ultimately the team decided to take the car back to the team’s base in England.

Thus, after confirming that the team had not brought a third reserve chassis to the event, Williams replaced Sargeant, who thus missed his first GP since his debut in the category in 2023. Now, perhaps conditionally, that He committed the mistake, albeit with his partner’s “cursed” car. At Suzuka Sargeant got into the car that needed to be repaired in Oxfordshire, while Albon continued with the car that belonged to the American to Australia.

The Red Bulls of Max Verstappen and Sergio Pérez were the fastest in the first activity of the weekend on the traditional Japanese circuit.