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F1 Beyond The Grid

30 Days of BTG: Day 2 – Logan Sargeant on proving people wrong

F1 Beyond The Grid

karenellenbevan

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🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Tom Clarkson is counting down to the new season of F1 Beyond The Grid by bringing you the best bits from our extensive archive of interviews with Formula 1 icons.

On Day 2 of 30 Days of BTG, Williams driver Logan Sargeant looks back at his nomadic karting career and explains why the biggest hurdle to success is himself, not his fellow competitors.

Follow the podcast to join Tom’s countdown to the new series, which starts Wednesday 28th February.

To hear the full interview with Logan Sargeant from 2023, tap here.

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0:00.0

Hello again everyone it's Tom here and thank you for joining me for day two of 30 days of

0:15.4

beyond the grid between now and the first episode of our new series I'm sharing

0:20.6

30 of the best clips from the huge beyond the grid interview archive.

0:25.6

For day two, we have the driver of car number two, the USA's latest Formula One hopeful, Logan

0:31.6

Sargent. Logan had a challenging rookie year with Williams in

0:35.5

2023 scoring just one world championship point and being outperformed by

0:41.0

teammate Alex Albonne throughout the year.

0:44.0

There was speculation over his Formula One future, but Team Principal James Vals saw enough potential

0:49.7

in Logan to reward him with a second chance this season.

0:53.4

And Logan's no stranger to proving critics wrong, having done the same during his carting career,

0:59.2

which he told me all about when we spoke last year.

1:05.0

Me and my brother just got go cards for Christmas and then you know just

1:10.0

started carding and one thing led to another wasn't meant to be anything other than you

1:13.8

know just go out have something to do with my brother and my dad and yeah that race with you

1:17.9

he had a card as well he started with us so just like messing around so he he jokes that I got everything from him

1:26.7

That's parogatay exactly but yeah we all we all started together and yeah from there just like you know we started racing sort of nationally

1:34.4

throughout America and then looked for the next challenge which was actually we

1:38.6

started just in Florida then we started racing national then we went to Europe and yeah the rest is history

1:45.2

Tell me about the move to Europe is that when it started to get serious for you when the whole family went to

1:51.1

Switzerland with you to support your racing career?

1:54.0

Yes and no, obviously it was serious to the point that we moved for racing and

1:59.3

also fortunate that dad had some business there so it made sense for, there was a reason for all of us to go

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