'Is it really worth it?'
James Vowles admits his decision to give Alex Albon Logan Sargeant’s car not only hurt the American driver, but it may not be the last time as Williams still won’t have a spare chassis available in Japan.
“For the benefit of maybe, maybe one point, if nothing happens to the RBs or anything like that, to hurt Logan’s confidence and his credibility, to undermine your decision to keep him for this year anyway, to maybe damage your relationship with your US owners and your US sponsors, and maybe damage your relationship with the fans as well, who many don’t think this a fair decision, is it really worth it?” quizzed the pit lane reporter.
Pressed as to why he “decided to completely sacrifice Logan”, the former Mercedes man said: “Logan did nothing wrong, he hasn’t put a foot wrong. But points are only allocated for the top ten cars and right now P6 to P10 is one point that was scored by Haas. Although the plan was to have three chassis from the very first race in Bahrain, he explained that the complex nature of the chassis technology meant ultimately Williams found it “more and more difficult to get two cars to Bahrain with enough spares that could go running.
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