Williams F1 team princip🎐al James Vowles was put in an awkward spot when he faced a difficult question about hi♋s drivers’ recent crashes.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Albon’s huge crash during practice in Australia resulted in Williams making the controversial decision to sacrifice168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Logan Sargeant’s weekend in order to give his teammate his car due to the team having no spare𝓡 chassis.

With a spare chassis not expected to be ready until next mon🌠th’s Miami Grand Prix at the earliest, Williams could face a repeat of their Melbourne nightmare if either Albon or Sargeant damage their cars beyond repair at the next two races.

Wiꦛlliams had a scare on ꧃Friday at the Japanese Grand Prix when Sargeant suffered a high-speed crash during first practice and was ruled out of participating in the second session, which ended up being a washout.

After the incident, Sky’s pit🌠lane reporter Ted Kravitz asked Vowles why his drivers “keep crashing”.

“It’s a strong 💟question – one to ask the drivers,” ꦗVowles responded.

“But when you see the midfield at the moment, it's incredibly tight, what we are asking of the drivers🐻 is to be absolutel🧸y on the limit to get everything out of it.

“There’s no margin for error 😼f♔undamentally in terms of performance. I don't think the car has any ill-handling characteristics.

"It's a sore stཧatistic that we are generating as many red flags as we are and clearly it affects future programmes, so we have to get on top of that.”

Sargeant admitted his crash was a “silly mistake” but ꦺVowles insists the accident wasn’t a result of the 23-𓆉year-old American missing a weekend

"At the top of the brow of the hill there, he strug🃏gle𝄹d to see where his positioning was on track," Vowles said.

"So it ♎fundamentally looks like he didn't quite realise where he was with where the grass was on the outside and put a wheel on the grass.”

Vowles added: "I've been chatting to him all week, all these last few weeks, in fact, because this is the point where you've got to keep a driver very close to you. You’ve sort of given them a very diffi😼cult situation to d🐟eal with, through no fault of their own.

"But he was honestly in a very good state of mind this week and last night again when I called him, a really💟, really strong state of mind, just wanted to get back into the car and get going, but not with the intention of proving to the world he deserves a seat, just his normal approach to things.

"And what you saw here wasn't a driver making a mistake because I think they were pushing to the limit. It's a very different type of mistake, a frustrating one by all accounts, because it wasဣn't on the limit of what the car could do.

“There was far more turning potential in there. He just didn't know wh🐲ere the car was on track relative to where he expected it to be anyway.

"So I don't think you're seeing there the reaction of someo🍷ne that wasn't driving in Melbourne. I think you're seeing more just a situation that could 🤡have appeared at any time."