Logan Sargeant suffered a heavy car accident during the third practice session of the Dutch Grand Prix 2024 on Saturday, August 24. The American driver lost control of his Williams FW46 car on wet tracks at Zandvoort but survived the crash without any major injuries ahead of the qualifying round.
After losing control, the 23-year-old Sargeant slammed his car into the barriers at turn 4 at Zandvoort. He was quick to get out of the wrecked car which caught a big fire. Fortunately, the Williams race left the incident without any harm and is likely to participate in the main race on Sunday.
Meanwhile, Sargeant was impressive in the practice sessions before the crash on Saturday. During his fifth lap, Sargeant was fifth in the standings in the P3 and finished the session in the 12th position with 1:23.287 time, 2.976s behind the leader Pierre Gasly of Alpine. His Williams' partner Alex Albon finished 14th after five laps in the last practice session.
Albon recovered strongly and entered the qualifying round with new confidence to finish in the top ten. He secured the eighth position on the grid with a strong finish in his final lap but he was slapped with a disqualification notice after the session.
"Albon disqualified for a technical nonconformity after the floor on his car was found in breach of regulations," the F1 statement said. "Sargeant did not take part in qualifying and races at the stewards' discretion. The floor body of Car 23 was found to lie outside the regulatory volume mentioned in Article 3.5.1 a) of the FIA Formula One Technical Regulations.
"The Stewards determine that the result of the measurement conducted with the FIA system in Parc Ferme is the relevant one and the due process prescribed by the regulations has been followed. Therefore the standard penalty for such an infringement is applied."
