Williams boss James Vowles says the crew is “nowhere close to” parting firm with Logan Sargeant, who the crew needs to maintain within the automotive for 2024.

Sargeant has struggled in his rookie season and a string of pricey crashes over the previous few races has ramped up stress on the Floridian.

The American’s place on the crew is the one spot on the grid but to be confirmed for 2024.

Vowles has moved to finish any hypothesis of the crew changing Sargeant, saying Williams should shoulder a number of the blame for his patchy kind.

“Logan has very clear targets that he has to hit earlier than the tip of the season and we’re working with him constantly,” Vowles mentioned.

“That is the essential level: we’re working with him. We would like him to succeed, and we wish him within the automotive subsequent yr. That is very a lot on us as properly.

“We’ve taken somebody straight from Formulation 2 with none vital testing, put a day and a half in Bahrain on this automotive, after which wished them properly on a season that has been awfully difficult for rookie drivers, full cease.

“We’ll proceed to work with Logan and put money into Logan, as we wish him to succeed. He is on a journey with us as Williams.”

Because of the realities of being certainly one of F1’s smaller groups working throughout the price range cap, Williams has been unable to introduce its upgrades to each vehicles on the similar factors this season.

Which means Sargeant’s teammate Alex Albon, who has had a massively spectacular marketing campaign, has usually run essentially the most up-to-date model of the automotive.

Vowles mentioned that is one thing the crew takes into consideration when assessing Sargeant’s season.

“Logan will not be on the identical aerodynamic specification as Alex.

“We’ve updates which are on Alex’s automotive that aren’t on Logan’s as a result of quantity of attrition we have had this yr. So usually once you see a efficiency offset, it isn’t fairly what it might appear on the timing pages.

“We’ve a younger driver programme that we’ll proceed to put money into. Solely on the level the place all of us come to the conclusion that we have reached the tip of that street will we make any choices.

“However we’re nowhere close to that but.”