Sargeant excited to race lighter Williams

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Schumacher deserves F1 seat – Todt

Former Ferrari team principal and FIA president Jean Todt believes Mercedes reserve driver Mick Schumacher should be racing in F1. Schumacher lost his seat with Haas at the end of 2022 after two seasons with the team and now races in the World Endurance Championship for Alpine.

“Of course he had a few accidents, some of which were his own fault,” Todt told Motorsport Total.

However, he added: “Mick is better than half of the Formula 1 drivers. Mick has what it takes [for Formula 1] without question. Otherwise he would not have won Formula 3 and Formula 2.”

Sargeant excited to race lighter Williams

After several races running with a slightly different specification of car to team mate Alexander Albon, Williams driver Logan Sargeant says he is looking forward to racing with a lighter car in Spain.

“We have weight coming off the car this weekend, so that’s obviously an automatic uplift,” Sargeant told the official F1 channel. “Which is nice and the first one of the season. So I’m looking forward to that and trying to make the most of that.

“My only worry is that this isn’t our best track. Certainly not in the past, but new year, new car. So, hopefully we can find a better window with it and push ourselves further up the grid.”

Beganovic feels ready for F2

Ferrari junior and F3 driver Dino Beganovic says he feels ready to potentially move into Formula 2 with Prema if a seat becomes available.

With speculation that current Prema F2 racer Andrea Kimi Antonelli may be called up into F1, Beganovic says he feels he would be ready to make the step up if Prema need a driver to fill Antonelli’s seat.

“I have not thought about it, to be honest,” he said in response to a question from RaceFans. “I’m only focusing on my season and what I have to do, so I have not thought about it at all. If it happens, it happens. But I would feel ready for it. But, again, I have not thought about it, before you brought it up.”

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