Williams issue "mistakes" warning over new recruit

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Williams issue "mistakes" warning over new recruit

Logan Sargeant joins the team for 2023

Ian Parkes

Friday 2 December 2022 15:18

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Williams team principal Jost Capito has urged people to lower their expectations of Logan Sargeant ahead of his debut F1 campaign in 2023.

After finishing fourth in the F2 championship this past season, which included two feature race victories, Williams has opted to promote Sargeant from its academy as the replacement for the axed Nicholas Latifi.

At a time when the American market in F1 is booming, for the first time in eight years, Sargeant will become the first driver from the US to compete in the series.

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Capito, however, has warned against expecting too much of the 21-year-old in his debut campaign as he will make mistakes, highlighting George Russell as a prime example before the Briton started to deliver ahead of his switch to Mercedes.

"It's not possible for a rookie to come into Formula 1 and be competitive," said Capito, speaking to GPFans. "That's impossible. It's so complex.

“We saw that with George [Russell] in his first two years. The third year he was really good, but in the first two years, he did mistakes, and Logan will do mistakes.

“That's important to communicate, to make people aware, that he will do mistakes and he will not be in the same category as [team-mate] Alex [Albon].

“It doesn't mean that he can't get there. I'm sure he can get there, but we have to give him the time to grow into that and to get the experience.”