Alex Albon or Logan Sargeant? Why Williams may be forced to make tough decision
Williams may have to pick between Alex 💦Albon or Logan Sargeant if ꦯthey end up being down to one car.
The Williams F1 team may be forced to make a difficult decision for the rest of the Australian Grand Prix if 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Albon’s damaged chassis cannot be repaired.
Albon suffered a heavy crash in first practice and badly damaged his Williams when he lost contr🍰ol of his FW46 before smashing into the wall at Turn 8.
The British-born Thai driver was f✱orced to miss the second session while Williams assessed theꦫ extent of the damage to his car.
Williams does not have a spare chassis in Melbourne and may decide to switch Albon to teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Logan Sargeant’s car on S🅘aturday if the damaged tub is writ𒅌ten off.
“🐻It was a fairly big accident,” Williams team principal James Vowles told after FP2. “The engine is damaged, the gearbox is split in two, and the chassis is damaged.
“It's the worst you could have ever had. We do not have a third chassis here, that's correct.ജ So now it's just whether we can repair this one.
"We have repair kits, fundamentally of those ๊I'm not yet sure, because it's💖 a very serious accident and with what happened on the front [right] corner.”
Vowles added that Williams will ultimately side with the drꦛiver who is most likely to score points if Albon’s chassis is damaged beyond repair.
"One point here will make the difference 𒊎be✅tween sixth and 10th potentially in the championship, simple as that,” Volwes explained.
"It just depends. I want ꧟to see how FP2 is, I want to see how the car performs. I want to see what options we have available to us on the chassis here as well."
Sky’s F1 pitlane reporter Ted Kravitz reported: "Alex Albon has damaged his chassis. That's the survival cell, the tub𝕴 around which the front and rear suspension and front suspension, the engine and nose cone actually go onto.
"The question i💙s now, because they don'🐼t have a spare chassis, whether they can repair that chassis. They don't know that yet, they hope they can but if they can't, they will have to face the question of whether they swap Alex Albon for Logan Sargeant and that's a question they will struggle with throughout the evening.”
Martin Brundle believes it is a “no-brainer” to run Albon and leave Sargeant on the sidelines if Williams end up being down to one ca🧜r.
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