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

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alex Albon’s shunt in Friday practice at Mel🌃bourne ruled his car out of the rest of the weekend.

But Williams chose to withdraw his teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Logan Sargeant, and let Albon conဣtinue in their one remaining car.

“It’s brutal, it’s ruthless, it’s a public 🤪vote of nဣo 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 wrecked his, and gets given Sa💖rgeant’s car!

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

“‘I’ll put the guy in the car who won 27 points c🦄om🃏pared to Sargeant’s one point last season’.

“And who has been consistently bette🥃r than Sarge♋ant.

“⛦It’s not just a🅠bout two guys, it’s about 800-900 guys at the factory.

“It has hit Sargeant hard.”

Sargeant has said: “Tꦅhis is the har🥃dest moment I can remember in my career and it’s absolutely not easy.

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

Slater reported that th🐼e incident🐠 is embarrassing to Williams.

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

“They have talked about their lack of resouꦬrces, saying they need extra capital expenditure, out with the budget cap.

“They wereꦬ late on the design of their car this year, to t🐓ry and improve it as much as possible.”

Slater ไreported about team boss ꧅Vowles: “I think he feels embarrassed, and sorry for Sargeant.”

Vowles has said: “It’s unacceptable in modern-day Formula 1 not to have a spar🃏e chassis, but it is a reflection of how behind we were in the winter pe💙riod and an illustration of why we need to 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 afternoo🌠n.”

Vowles added: “The midfield is so incredibly tight that a point or two or more may make the difference at the end of th𒐪e 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 onඣ Sunday, I have to prioritise the team above all else.

“Logan has been tremendous. He's here to 🎃support the team in this regard. He's clearly very much ♓hurting as a result of this decision 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 the best guy to 🎃do it.

“He was Mercedes’ strategist, use♓d to making those knife-edge pitwall decisions.

“There will be zero sentiment.

“This re🐭veals how ruthless Formula 1 is. It’s all about the l𝔉ap 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 themselves the best chance ofﷺ 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 absolute limit. We pushed everything as far as it could do.

“What it meant, as a result of that, is off the back end of being veryꦬ late on some of the p﷽roduction, the spare chassis starts to move backwards.

“No team p🎉lans 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 g⭕o racing, and to only have one car here on Saturday and Sunday simply isn't what we're built to do.”