Costly F1 crashes masking Sargeant’s “steady improvement”

Sargeant suffered a couple of costly shunts since the summer break, starting with an off in Zandvoort.

The American rookie also had a huge crash on his first lap of qualifying for the Japanese Grand Prix, running out of track to catch oversteer out of the final corner, and then losing control on the grass as he thumped the wall with both ends of his car.

Williams faced a full rebuild around a spare chassis, which forced Sargeant to start from…