Logan Sargeant could become the first F1 driver of 2024 to lose hisꦜ dr𓃲ive mid-season.

Andrea Kimi Antonelli, the Mercedes junior, is tipped to take his place༒ for the second 🎃half of this campaign by those inside the paddock.

Neither Sargeant nor highly-rat🍒ed team🍃mate Alex Albon have scored a point in the first five rounds.

“The talk in China last weekend is that Antonelli will be in the second Williams, alongside Alex Albon, from the summer break onwards,” FIA press conference host Tom Clarkson shared on the ♕ podcast.

“He turns 18 at the end of August.

“Williams are asking the FIA for special dispe🧸nsation.

“Max Verstappen raced in🌼 Formula 1 aged 17, why can’t Antonelli?

“But 🐈I think the rules are nꦇow set. And there won’t be a dispensation.

“I see✨ Antonelli in t๊he Williams, in the second half of the season, replacing Sargeant.”

Antonelli has꧅ been strongly linked with replacing Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes next season.

He is racing in his rookie year in Formula 2 but Toto Wolff has talked up his prodigious♛ ability.

Antonelli has tested Mercedes F1 cars this season in an obvious opp𒊎ortunity to get to grips with the demands.

Should Mercedes place their faith in Antonelli as a full-time driver next season, then loaning him to Williams for t✅he second half of this year would give him a headstart 🧜in learning the ropes in F1.

American ꧃driver Sargeant will continue to come under scrutiny f🎉or his place on the grid.

Williams insisted they retained faith in him, despite removing him from his car to let Albon (who had crashed his own car) to take 𒈔over in Australia.