Logan chats to GQ ahead of his first home race

During the de facto spring break, Logan Sargeant spent time in New York and London, the latter of which he now calls home.

That said, our 22-year-old hails from Florida and all eyes will be on him this weekend as he heads back to his roots for the 2023 Miami Grand Prix, his maiden car race on US soil.

Whilst back in London, Logan spent the day with GQ correspondent Daniel Riley, who has penned Sarge’s story, from his beginnings in motorsport right through to arriving in the top tier.

Here are just some of our favourite moments from the deep dive.

He’d driven well all year, but Logan needed to finish eighth or higher in the final F2 race of the season in Abu Dhabi to secure his points.

“There was a bit more pressure going into that weekend,” he said. “But the defining moment is once you tighten your belt, and you’re locked in.”

He finished fifth. And ascended just like that to the pinnacle of racing.

“I don’t really like that word. Surprise. Because you’re expecting the hardest challenge you can imagine. I wouldn’t say it’s a surprise, it’s just difficult.

“[The non-competitive elements are] a bit overwhelming, to be honest. Sometimes you don’t feel like you get any time to yourself to sit back and take a breath.

“I mean, on Thursday in F2 and F3, all you do is prep. And now all of sudden you have an hour to prep and the rest is media. Everything shrinks in terms of the time you have to prepare yourself.”

Logan’s advice for jet lag? Take a little melatonin when it’s midnight at your destination. And artificially replicate the light of wherever you’re going.

If it’s day there, stick your iPad in your face and keep yourself awake. If it’s night, black out, mask up, sleep. After the stopover in New York, he flew back to London, his first circumnavigation of the globe.

Later, he summed up the experience in perfectly understated racing terms: “I completed the lap.”

“It seems like it’s actually caught some traction in the right way. Sometimes a lot of it is just talk.

“But now it feels real. It’s happening.”

“I’ve never met someone with that much California vibes, to be honest. Instead of doing knuckles, he was like all side knuckles!

“The team wanted me to sign a hat for him. But I was like, like, C’mon… He’s way too cool for that. I can’t sign a hat for Brad Pitt.”

You can read the full GQ article here – Meet Logan Sargeant, America's Great F1 Hope.