Qualifying head-to-head
Albon 13-0 Sargeant
Albon 7-2 Colapinto
As was the case last year, Albon had the better of Logan Sargeant throughout their time together. However, the American will still feel hard done by the decision to withdraw him from the Australian Grand Prix after Albon damaged his chassis in a heavy practice crash, with the Thai driver being handed his team mate’s car instead.
At the Dutch Grand Prix Albon was also disqualified from qualifying for a technical infringement, while Sargeant didn’t take part after a heavy practice crash. Ultimately that costly weekend proved to be the last for the American in the Williams seat.
In came Argentinian Colapinto who gave Albon much more of a test. The youngster would end up bettering his team mate in qualifying twice in their nine weekends together – in Azerbaijan and Las Vegas (although that latter session did end in a hefty crash in Q2).
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Race head-to-head
Albon 11-2 Sargeant
Albon 4-4 Colapinto
Sargeant would only beat Albon twice in their time together this season (in Japan and in Imola, where Albon retired). As mentioned above, he also couldn’t take part in Australia while neither Williams car finished the Canadian Grand Prix.
Once Sargeant was swapped out for Colapinto, it was neck and neck between the drivers – though much of that is probably down to Albon’s extraordinary run of bad luck at the back end of the season. Following his high of P7 in Azerbaijan, he would have three retirements and one DNS (in Brazil) across the final seven race weekends.
Colapinto also failed to finish in Brazil, and endured DNFs in the final two races of the year to end his short F1 stint on a bit of a downer – though the 21-year-old undoubtedly impressed enough to convince many he deserves another chance in F1 sooner rather than later.
