Williams F1 team principal James Vowles was put in an awkward spot when he faced a difficult question 🥃about his drivers’ recent crashes.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Albon’s huge crash during practice in Australia resulted in Williams making the controversial decision to sacrifice168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Logan Sargeant’s weekend in order to give his teammate 🐲his car due to the team having no spare chassis.

With a spare chassisಞ not expected to be ready until next month’s Miami Grand Prix at the earliest, Williams could face a repeat of their Melbourne nightmare if either Albon or Sargeant damage their cars beyond repair at the next two races.

Williams had a scare on Friday at the Japanese Graꦯnd Prix when Sargeant suffered a high-sp🐲eed crash during first practice and was ruled out of participating in the second session, which ended up being a washout.

After the incident, Sky’s pitlane reporter Ted K🌟ravitz asked Vowles why his drivers “keep crashing”.

“It’s a strong question – one to ask the drivers,൲” Vowles responded.

“But when you see the midfield at the moment, it's incredibly tight, wha✤t we are asking of the drivers is toꦅ be absolutely on the limit to get everything out of it.

“There’s no margin for error fundamentally 💖in terms of performance. I don't think the car has any ill-handling characteristics.

"It's a sore statistic tha♒t we are generating as many red flags as we are and clearly it affects future p🎃rogrammes, so we have to get on top of that.”

Sargeant admitted his crasꦰh was a “silly mistake” but Vowles insists the accident wasn’t a result of the 23-year-old American miꦬssing a weekend

"At the top of the brow of the hill there, he struggled to see where his positioning w🦩as on track," Vowles said.

"So it fundamenta💃lly looks like he didn't quite realise where he was with where the grass was on the outside and put a wheel on the grass.”

Vowles added: "I've be🗹en chatting to him all week, all these last few weeks, in fact, because this is the point where you've got to keep a driver very close 🍸to you. You’ve sort of given them a very difficult situation to deal with, through no fault of their own.

"But he was honestly in a very good state of mind this week and last night again when I called him, a really,🦂 really strong state of mind, just wanted to get back into the car and get going, but not with the intention of proving to the world he deserves a seat, just his normal approach to things.

"And what you saw here wasn't a driver making a mistake because I 🌳think they were pushing to the limit. It's a very different type of mistake, a frustrating one by all accounts, because it wasn't on the 🔯limit of what the car could do.

“There was far more turning p💯otential in there. He just didn't know where the car was on track relative to where he expected i🐠t to be anyway.

"So Iꦅ don't think you're seeing there the reaction of som♍eone that wasn't driving in Melbourne. I think you're seeing more just a situation that could have appeared at any time."