Keeping our fingers crossed for Sargeant's sake this doesn't prove costly after Abu Dhabi... F1
It was the 21-year-old’s second FP1 outing in succession having also put in the laps at the Circuit of The Americas.
“I was definitely a lot more comfortable coming into it,” he said. “Everything slowed down a lot, it was a lot easier to build into a rhythm, learn the track and start to build up to it.To date Sargeant has 28 of the required 40 points, the driver on course to earn another one with his FP1 run in Abu Dhabi and even more when the result for the Formula 2 Championship is decided at the Yas Marina Circuit.
“So if he does 100 kilometres of free practice running, he gets an extra super licence point,” F1 journalist Will Buxton explained to the official F1 website. “If he doesn’t get any points on his driver’s licence, racing driver’s licence, in the final round in Abu Dhabi in Formula 2, he also gets an extra two points.Sargeant is currently P3 in the Drivers’ Championship with 135 points but only 18 ahead of eighth-placed Frederik Vesti.Asked if he’d change the way he raced in order to prioritise the“I think going into the last round it’s obviously tight going into Formula 2, but the chips are on the table and we’re all going to be going for it.
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