Logan Sargeant: American driver wins Williams F1 seat for 2023 after earning super license
Logan Sargeant claimed fourth in the Formula 2 championship to win a super license and drive a Formula 1 car; The 21-year-old American will team up with Alex Albon at Williams next season, completing the 2023 grid
Last Updated: 11/20/22 10:36 am
Logan Sargeant has secured his Formula 1 seat with Williams for 2023 after receiving a super license following the final round of the Formula 2 season.
Sergeant, the 21-year-old American, was revealed to be Williams’ preferred replacement for Nicholas Latifi at the US GP last month, but the move depends on him earning enough super-license points.
By finishing fifth in F2’s season-ending feature race, Sargeant took fourth in the championship – enough to put him past the 40-point claim.
Sargeant, a junior driver to Williams who has taken part in a number of F1 training sessions this season, will therefore team up with Alex Albon at the Grove-based team next year, becoming the American driver. First to join since Alexander Rossi in 2015.
It fills the entire 2023 F1 grid after Haas confirmed Nico Hulkenberg last week.
Speaking last month, Williams boss Jost Capito said of Sargeant: “I’m a fan of getting young drivers into F1 as quickly as possible.
“So get him in as quickly as possible and find out if he is capable of staying in F1 for a long time, which we believe he has.
“In his first year in F2, he won races and he qualified very strongly throughout the years of his career, so we believe he is perfectly ready to enter F1.” .
“We can have a rookie because with Alex we have a young driver who is also very experienced. He has established himself very well in the team, he has achieved great results, he works really well with the team so we can take the rookie with him.”
Than to follow.