Thank you, Logan: His Williams Journey

The 2025 season will see a new face arrive at Grove. But as with all new arrivals in this sport, there are also departures.

Logan Sargeant joined the Williams Racing Driver Academy in October 2021 at the United States Grand Prix after several impressive seasons climbing the junior series.

With the backing of the team, he was set to make the step up to Formula 2 in 2022, even getting a head start by jumping in for one round of the 2021 season in Saudi Arabia. One week later, he took the reins of our 2021 F1 car at the post-season test – his first taste of Formula 1 machinery, but it wouldn’t be his last.

Logan's rookie Formula 2 season was impressive. He took a Sprint Race P3 in Spain to start his podium-reaching ways before adding to his trophy cabinet with second place at his first-ever race weekend at the Baku City Circuit.

One round later at Silverstone – the site of his first Formula 3 win – he topped the timesheets throughout Qualifying to take a maiden F2 pole position. That Friday performance followed through to the race on Sunday, leading from start to finish.

More success followed just seven days later in Austria. After qualifying in P3 on Friday, Sunday brought damp conditions meaning he would start on wet tyres. He dropped to as low as P14, but he stormed through the field to eventually finish where he had started, only for post-race penalties to hand Logan another Feature Race victory.

With the eyes of the motorsport world on him at the season finale in Abu Dhabi, Logan would deliver two mature drives in both races to not only lock in his status as Rookie of the Season but also deliver him enough Super Licence points for a full-time drive in Formula 1.

A strong start to the season in Bahrain, including an outstanding opening lap, saw plaudits flood his way after a P12 finish. Good results came at Austria and Silverstone, with a P13 and P11 respectively, but still that fabled points finish eluded him. But that would change in October 2023.

Logan already had quite a run of achievements at Circuit of the Americas. It was where he joined our Driver Academy in 2021, and in 2022 it was the site of his maiden F1 weekend outing.

But his personal story with this popular venue was not over. In 2023, he wrote another chapter.

He had a good start from his P16 grid spot and quickly found his rhythm. He made several overtakes throughout the 56-lap race and finished a few seconds down the road from his teammate in P12.

As Sarge departed COTA after a positive weekend, news started to filter through from the FIA that Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc had both been referred to stewards for issues with their planks in the post-race checks.

The Mercedes and Ferrari drivers were later disqualified and our duo climbed into the points – Alex taking home two points and one for Logan.

It had been 30 years since an American racer last scored points at the pinnacle of motorsport, Michael Andretti doing so at the 1993 Italian Grand Prix. Logan also became the first American to score in a US GP since Eddie Cheever at Phoenix in 1989.

More Stateside success would follow later in the campaign, with his best qualifying result coming at the inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix, locking in a P6 grid spot.

Logan would continue with the team into 2024, with his P11 at Silverstone the best finish of the season so far.

Following the 29th July announcement, James Vowles shared “I want to thank Logan for everything he has done for the team and know he will continue to fight hard for us in the races ahead.”