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

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Albon’s shunt in Friday practice at Melbourne ruled his car out of the rest of the weekend൲.

But Williams chose to withdraw his teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Logan Sargeant, a𓆉nd let Albon continue in their one remaining car.

“It’s brutal, it’s ruꩵthless, it’s a public vote of no 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 Sargeant’s car!

“But ඣ‘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 p🌱ut the guy in the car who won 27 points compared to Sargeant’s one poin𓆉t last season’.

“And who has been consistentlꦕy better than Sargeant.

“It’s not just about two guys, it’ℱs about 800-900 guys aꦚt the factory.

“It has hit Sargeant hard.”

Sargeant has said: “This is the hardest moment I can remember ൲in my career anꩲd it’s absolutely not easy.

“I am, how🀅eve🅠r, completely here for the team and will continue to contribute in any way that I can this weekend to maximise what we can do.”

Slater reported that the incident is embar🌺rassing 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 the rest o🅠f th♌e weekend!

“They have talked about their lack of resources, saying they need extra capital expenditu🤡re, o꧒ut with the budget cap.

“They were late on the design of their car this year, to try and improve it as ওmuch as possible.”

Slater reported 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 spare chassis, but it is a reflection of how behind we were in the winter period and an illustr♌ation of why we need to go through significant c🔯hange in order to get ourselves out in a better position for the future.

“As a result, we have some very difficult dꦿecisions to mꦇake this afternoon.”

Vowles added: “The midfield is soꦓ incredibly tight that a point or two or more may make the difference at the en🦩d of the 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 on Sunday, I have 𝓡to 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 hurti♐ng 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 g✃uy to do it.

“He was Mercedes’ s🅰trategist, used to making those knife-edge piಌtwall decisions.

“There will be zero sentiment.

“This reveals how ruthless Formula 1 is. It’s all abou꧟t the lap times.

“In a season where the top five t꧅eams, with two cars each, will fill the top 10 positions, the remaining teams have to give themselves the best chance of 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 very late on some of the production, the spare chassis starts to move backwards⭕.

“No team plans to come to an event without a spare chassis. In doing so youᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ 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 go racing, and to only have one car here on 🐟Saturday and Sunday simply isn't what we're built to do.”