James Vowles admitted it is “unacceptable” that Williams did not bring a spare chassis to the F1 Australian Grand Prix.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Albon’s shunt in Friday practice at Melbourne ruled his c๊ar out of the rest of the weekend.

But Williams chose to withdraw his teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Logan Sargeant, and let Albon co♓ntinue in their one remaining car.

“It’s brutal, it’s ruthless, it’s a public vote of no confidence in Logan Sargeant�෴� who is a nice young guy,” Craig Slater reported on Sky.

“Does he deserve it? No. He didn’t wreck his car!

“Albon wr🌃ecked his, and gets given Sargeant’s car!

“But ‘deserve’ has nothing to do with it. This is James Vowles, the Williams team principal, thinking ‘w𝓰hat do I need to do, to give the team a c♐hance of winning points?’

“ꦕ‘I’ll put the guy in the car who won 27 points compared to Sargeant’s one point last 💫season’.

“And who has been consistently better than 🉐Sargeant.

“It’s not jus💜t about two guys, it’s a💮bout 800-900 guys at the factory.

“It has hit Sargeant hard.”

Sargeant has said: “This is the hardest moment I can remember in👍 my career and it’s absolu⛄tely not easy.

“I am, however, completely here for the team and will coౠntinue to contribute in any way that I can this weekend to maximise what we can do.”

Slater reported that the incident is embarrassing to Wil😼liams.

“𒁏Yes it is,” he said. “To only have two chassis? Sargeant spun his car, they might ha🙈ve ended up with no cars for the rest of the weekend!

“They have talked about their lack of resources, saying they ♏need extra capital expenditure, o꧃ut with the budget cap.

“They were lat꧋e on the design of their car this year, to try and i🌸mprove it as much as possible.”

Slater reported about team boss Vowleꩵs: “I think he feels embarrassed, and sorry f🐭or Sargeant.”

Vowles has said: “It’s unacceptable in modern-day Formula 1 not to have a spare chassis, but it is a reflection of how behind we were in the winter period and an illustration of why we need 𒁃to go through significant change in order to get ourselves out in a better position for the future.

“As a result, ༒we have some very difficult decisions to make ♍this afternoon.”

Vowles added: “The midfield is so incredibly tight that a point or two or more may make the difference at the end of ♑the season between being 10th or being🃏 6th. The spread of our cars at the moment is milliseconds.

“And as much as it pains me to see a driver that through no fault of their own won't be racing on Sunday, I have to p🐠rioritise the team above all else.

“Logan has been tremendous. He's here to support the team in t🤪his regard. He's clearly very much hurting as a result of this deꦦcision but equally strong in as much as he knows the team above all else is the priority.”

Slater continued: “If you’ve got a tough call to make, he’s t🌜he best guy to do it.

“He was Mercedes’ strategist, used to making those knife-edge pitwall decision🐷s.

“There will be zero sentiment.

“This reveals how ruthless Formula 1 i🐈s. It’s all about the lap times.

“In a season where the top five teams, with two cars each, will fill the top 10 positions, the remaining teams have to give themse꧋lves the best chance of getting those few points race-to-race.”

Vowles detailed how Williams found themselves in this situation: “As a result of the work that took place across the winter,🤪 we stressed the organisation to the absoluꦯte limit. We pushed everything as far as it could do.

“What i♉t meant, as a result of that, is off the back end of being♛ very late on some of the production, the spare chassis starts to move backwards.

“No team plans to come to an event without a spare chassis. In doing so you create risk. In the absolute best case it's uncomfortable, and in the worst case, one of the cars is not racing. And that♓'s the situation we face today.

“We have to ensure that ⛄we never🎶, ever put ourselves in that situation again going forward in the future. We are here to go racing, and to only have one car here on Saturday and Sunday simply isn't what we're built to do.”