In the round-up: Williams will adjust Logan Sargeant’s seating position after he complained of arm pain in Interlagos
In brief
Williams adjust Sargeant’s seating after arm numbness
Williams team principal James Vowles says that the team will investigate his seating position in their car after driver Logan Sargeant suffered arm discomfort during the Brazilian Grand Prix.
The rookie was heard complaining that he could not move his left arm over team radio after finishing the race last weekend. Vowles said the team will investigate how to help prevent it recurring.
“Logan is fine,” Vowles said in a video on Williams’ website. “We need to look at his seating position in the car to make sure he’s not having those pains after the race.
“It hasn’t appeared elsewhere, so it’ll be a function of the fact, I suspect, that the circuit goes the other way around to normal and where the belts are located relative to his shoulders. So we’ll spend so time with him in what we call a ‘mock-up car’, where the drivers physically sit in it, you can see where all the belts align and make sure we make adjustments so this doesn’t happen again.”
“Crazy amount of respect” between drivers – Ricciardo
Daniel Ricciardo insists that there is a strong level of mutual respect between the current field of drivers on the F1 grid.Speaking on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the AlphaTauri driver said the fierce competition between rivals is also a sign of the respect between them.
“I don’t think there’s many sports where the field is so small,” Ricciardo said. “You get to the top of something and there’s room for so little.
“It does create a crazy like competitiveness between us, but also with that there’s a crazy amount of respect. We’re all aware of like the hurdles or sacrifices or everything that we did to get to that point, so there’s always an element of respect. I think because we do race fast and it can be dangerous, the competitiveness is there – that’s what got us there – but we have something pretty great in common.”
Red Bull junior Lindblad takes Macau F4 pole
Red Bull junior driver Arvid Lindblad secured pole position for today’s Formula 4 race at the Guia street circuit, home of the Macau Grand Prix.
The 16-year-old, who is competing in his first full season of single-seater racing, secured pole position for SJM Theodore Prema by half a second from team mate Freddie Slater. Former Alpine affiliated driver Hadrien David, who raced in the Formula Regional Regional European championship in 2023, will start third.
The Macau Grand Prix itself, raced with F3 cars, will take place next weekend.
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After Christian Horner expressed his view that Sergio Perez lost confidence after the Miami Grand Prix, reader HK wonders if he will ever be able to recover it at Red Bull…
The question is, is it really realistic to believe a driver’s confidence recovers in the same environment where it was crushed?
A driver like Alexander Albon recovered because he went to a less demanding, easier environment with much much less capable team mates. Same for Pierre Gasly.
Perez will almost never get the chance to catch a break at Red Bull Racing. Even on his good days he’ll likely get beaten. His talent just isn’t quite enough to fight a multiple world champion in equal machinery.
HK
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Jere (@jerejj)
12th November 2023, 5:54
Interlagos isn’t the only anti-clockwise circuit, so that can’t be a factor in what I also noted in his post-race radio comm.
notagrumpyfan
12th November 2023, 7:34
The majority of the last three races were anti-clockwise. Even the majority of the last six races (or eight races of the season) are predominantly anti clockwise.
Maybe Sargeant should drive his car in reverse. It won’t hurt his finishing position; it’ll give him a unique pole sitter experience; and he’ll see the cars coming when being overtaken.
pcxmac (@pcxmac)
12th November 2023, 6:08
Logan looks like a guy who doesn’t get to the gym that much, or train that hard. If he wants to stay in F1, hes gonna need a trainer/diet person and make sure his heart is in tip top condition (to include medical checkups, considering the last few years). Best of luck to him. His sickness and dealing with heat, and circulation issues sound a lot more like conditioning issues to me. Also it will help his mental fitness during the whole of a race, allowing him to think clearer and performing in a much more measured fashion. What ever Alonso or Lewis is doing in my estimation. Verstappen is still young enough, so its hard to judge him, but he probably is on a good program.
anon
12th November 2023, 9:11
@pcxmac the problems with heat stress during the race in Qatar were far from unique to Sargeant – for example, we know that his own team mate, Albon, required medical treatment after the race for dehydration and heat stress problems, but nobody was saying that Albon hasn’t done enough conditioning.
Crawliin-from-the-wreckage (@davedai)
12th November 2023, 9:38
I can’t see anyone trying to live their dream leaving themselves unprepared.
I’d go with Williams position, something just pinching enough over a period or vibration. Or any combination.
I know I get in trouble for bringing up the past but 3 time Indy 500 winner Johnny Rutherford said
from McLaren racing site.
Reckon there’d be a more sophisticated fix now (if that were part of the problem!)
lynn-m
12th November 2023, 12:53
Trying to compare the abomination of the Las Vegas track to Montreal & the old Hockenheim is laughable.
Every driver thats driven it in the sim has said it isn’t fun to drive. Every fan i’ve seen thats driven it in the game has said it isn’t very fun to drive.
Instead of implying European based fans just hate it because it isn’t in europe, Just admit it’s an awful track that nobody other than those who are funding it seem to have any love for.
The people that are desperately trying to defend this abomination are the same people who were saying the same things about Miami & that’s an awful track as well.
Just be truthful with fans, We’re going there for the pretty lights & the track isn’t important & giving the ticket prices it’s pretty clear it also isn’t an event for the fans either.
It like Miami will be as awful as it looks, Fans will hate it, Drivers will hate it but F1 & the media shills will try to defend it. It will last a few years, Eventually go away & will never be thought about again aside from when people make top 10 awful circuit lists.