F1 rookie Sargeant believes his Williams team should be stronger in this weekend's SaudiaArabianGP than it was in Bahrain, where it scored a point.
The unexpected pace of the FW45, with Albon entering the round predicting his team to be slowest, was underlined by Sargeant running to a competitive 12th on his topflight debut.
But Sargeant reckons Williams should be stronger still on the high-speed Jeddah street circuit owing to a low-drag aero car concept that helps the team perform in a straight line. Asked by Motorsport.com if the Grove squad, which ranked 10th and last in the 2022 constructors' standings, could again battle in the midfield, the rookie said:"I think technically on paper, we should be better here than Bahrain.
"That doesn't mean other [teams] won't bring other things [to increase performance], so we really don't know and it's a very different track."There's going to be a lot of variables. But hopefully we have a package that can be quick." Sargeant added that his focus now must be on memorising the race procedure to make it"second nature" so that he is not draining his"mental capacity" by have to consciously adapt in the moment.
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