James Vowles has been criticised for his decision to stop Logan Sargeant from racing at this weekend's Australian Grand Prix.
Sargeant will not be in action for Williams in Melbourne after the team decided to give his chassis to teammate Albon.
Albon damaged his in first practice after a heavy shunt at Turn 6, causing a red flag with 20 minutes on the clock.Given Albon is typically the quicker Williams driver, Vowles decided to give Albon his teammate’s chassis.Vowles addressed the situation in a slightly awkward interview with Sky Sports F1’s Ted Kravitz ahead of FP3 on Saturday.“So first of all let’s rewind. We don’t have a spare chassis here - that’s the failing as the result of things.
"All of that is a tremendous amount for an organisation to digest in a period of 12 months. The chassis technology is very different to anything that has come out of Williams beforehand. It’s a huge amount more components. Across the winter, everything came later and later to the extent it was becoming more and more difficult to have two cars in Bahrain with enough spares to go running.
"At some point you have to make decisions - do we sacrifice spares? The spare chassis? What do we push back in the system and the chassis is what got pushed back. Originally planned for round three, still you’re playing with fire, that’s two rounds you can be without a chassis and then due to further problems, and further delays, it got pushed back beyond here. It’s unacceptable in any standard of modern day F1 but it’s also now a visible element of where we are as Williams.
"As a result of that, with just one car, I’ve got to put my best foot forward. Across this year, if I ignore last year, this year, Alex has had the leading edge over Logan in every single event. With just one car, you put your best statistical chance of scoring a point in as every point will make a difference.""I don’t have a different view but I will put maybe some of the fans’ view. For the benefit of maybe, maybe one point.
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