Logan Sargeant: Williams Formula One Driver, Formula 2 Race Winner and Sportscar Racer

Logan Sargeant is an American racing driver from Fort Lauderdale who raced for Williams in Formula One in 2023 and 2024. He won the 2015 CIK-FIA World KFJ karting title, spent several seasons in European single-seaters and won two Formula 2 feature races with Carlin in 2022. He scored his only championship point in his debut season and later returned to sportscar racing.

Who is Logan Sargeant?

Logan Hunter Sargeant was born on 31 December 2000 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He is the nephew of the billionaire businessman Harry Sargeant III and the younger brother of the former NASCAR driver Dalton Sargeant.

Sargeant has described fishing as a hobby, and his management is handled by the British driver Oliver Gavin through a company of his own. Those details sit alongside a racing career that took him from American karting to European single-seaters and then to sportscars.

The first American to score a Formula One point since 1993, who later returned to racing in sportscars.

How did Sargeant rise through karting and junior single-seaters?

Sargeant began his motorsport career in karting in 2008, first in the Rotax Micro Max class in regional and national events. His family later moved to Europe so that he could compete in karting, and he raced in the ROK Cup International Final, the Trofeo delle Industrie and the WSK Euro Series.

In 2015 he won the CIK-FIA World KFJ Championship. He became the first American to win an FIA karting world title since Lake Speed in 1978, and in 2016 he secured his first senior karting title in the WSK Champions Cup in the OK class.

His single-seater debut came in the winter of 2016-17 in the Formula 4 UAE Championship with Motopark. Fifteen of his eighteen official races ended on the podium, and he was runner-up in the standings to his teammate Jonathan Aberdein.

In 2017 he moved to Carlin for the F4 British Championship. He took ten podiums in 30 races, including two wins at Rockingham and Silverstone, and he finished third behind Oscar Piastri and the dominant champion Jamie Caroline.

What did Sargeant achieve in Formula 3 and Formula 2?

Sargeant moved to the Formula Renault Eurocup in 2018 with R-ace GP and became a full-time racer in that category. He won the season-opening race at Paul Ricard, then added victories at the Nurburgring and at Barcelona, and he finished fourth in the championship with 218 points.

He returned to Carlin for the 2019 FIA Formula 3 Championship, alongside Felipe Drugovich and Teppei Natori. He scored points on four occasions and finished 19th with five points, while Drugovich scored eight and Natori one. At the end of that year he competed in the Macau Grand Prix, finishing third in the main race after a crash in the qualifying race that eliminated several drivers.

In 2020 he switched to Prema, which had won the teams' title the year before, and partnered Frederik Vesti and Oscar Piastri. He took his first F3 victory in the second Silverstone feature race from pole, and he won the Spa sprint race, which extended his points lead.

His title hopes ended at Mugello, where a lap-one clash with Lirim Zendeli eliminated him as Piastri went on to take the title. He finished third in the standings, one point behind Theo Pourchaire and four behind Piastri.

In 2021 he rejoined Charouz, who had finished last in the teams' championship the year before, and he finished seventh in the drivers' standings with 102 of the team's 127 points. The Sochi win gave Charouz its first victory in Formula 3.

Earlier in 2021 he had ruled out a move to Formula 2 for financial reasons and talked of sportscars or Indy Lights. He then stepped up to Formula 2 for the penultimate round of 2021 with HWA Racelab, backed by Williams. In 2022 he joined Carlin alongside Liam Lawson. He qualified fourth at the opening round, won two feature races, claimed two poles and four podiums, and finished fourth in the championship with 148 points.

The 2022 season had its ups and downs. He took his first podium in the Barcelona sprint, his first feature podium at Baku with second place, and then his first pole and first win at Silverstone. At the Red Bull Ring he finished fourth in the feature race, but the disqualification of the winner gave him a second consecutive feature win. Crashes and retirements in the sprints at the Hungaroring and Spa cost him further points.

How did his Formula One debut season go?

Sargeant joined the Williams Driver Academy in 2021 and drove a Williams FW43B at the Yas Marina post-season test. He made his practice debut at the 2022 United States Grand Prix, the first American in a Grand Prix weekend session since Alexander Rossi's 2015 appearance.

Williams confirmed him as a 2023 race driver once he earned enough Super Licence points at Abu Dhabi in 2022. He chose number 2, last used by Stoffel Vandoorne in 2018, and his Bahrain race began with a 16th-place qualifying and a twelfth-place finish. He set an identical lap time to Lando Norris in qualifying but missed Q2 because Norris set his time first.

The season was hard. At Qatar he withdrew after 40 laps with heat stroke and dehydration, symptoms that other drivers also suffered in the extreme conditions. He improved from 19th on the grid to 11th in Sao Paulo, but a fuel pump failure ended his race in Mexico. He crashed in the Azerbaijan sprint shootout, finished 13th in Austria after starting 18th, reached Q2 and finished 11th at the British Grand Prix, and crashed heavily in Japan, where he started from the pit lane after a qualifying accident.

His single point came at the United States Grand Prix. He finished 12th on the road and moved up to tenth once Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc were disqualified. He became the first American to score a Formula One point since Michael Andretti at the 1993 Italian Grand Prix.

Later races brought his best qualifying performance, sixth at Las Vegas, but both Williams drivers finished outside the points there. He finished the season 21st with one point, while Albon scored 27. Sky Sports called the season hugely challenging, and both The Race and RaceFans ranked him 21st of 22 drivers, with The Race noting flashes of genuine speed.

Why did he lose his Williams seat?

Williams re-signed Sargeant in December 2023 for 2024, alongside Albon. He withdrew from the Australian Grand Prix to let Albon use his chassis after Albon crashed heavily in practice and the team could not repair his car. Sargeant called it the hardest moment of his career.

He went on to race to 20th in Bahrain after a steering wheel problem, 14th in Saudi Arabia after starting 19th, and 17th in Japan. In Japan he ran as high as 11th before locking up and ending in the gravel. At Miami he gained eight places to finish tenth in the sprint, but he retired from the main race after a collision with Kevin Magnussen.

His best weekend of 2024 came at the British Grand Prix, where he qualified 12th and finished 11th. The day after the Belgian Grand Prix Williams announced that Carlos Sainz Jr. would take his seat in 2025. Sargeant crashed heavily in Dutch practice, missed qualifying and was released two days after that race, with Franco Colapinto replacing him for the remaining races.

Before the decision, Vowles had said the team was continually evaluating the position. Team principal James Vowles said the decision gave Williams the best chance to score points over the remaining races, and that keeping Sargeant for the second half would have been almost unfair. Sargeant said he would fight whatever the situation was.

What did Sargeant do after leaving Formula One?

Sargeant's sportscar work began before Formula One, and it continued afterwards. In 2021 he raced for Iron Lynx in the GT3 class at two Le Mans Cup rounds, taking two poles and two victories. He also drove for Racing Team Turkey in two European Le Mans Series races and claimed pole on his LMP2 debut.

In October 2024 Sargeant tested a Dallara DW12 for Meyer Shank Racing at Thermal Club, his first IndyCar test. In December 2024 he tested an Oreca 07 for IDEC Sport, but he withdrew from the team's 2025 European Le Mans Series seat and took a break from racing.

On 14 August 2025 he announced a return to sportscars with PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports for the final two rounds of the IMSA SportsCar Championship in the LMP2 class. The team finished eighth at Battle on the Bricks and fourth at the Petit Le Mans season finale.

In January 2026 he was confirmed for the 24 Hours of Daytona with Era Motorsport in LMP2, alongside Jacob Abel, Ferdinand Habsburg and Naveen Rao. He also said he had been heavily involved in the development work for Ford's 2027 LMDh car.

On 15 January 2026 Sargeant was confirmed as one of three drivers for Ford Racing's factory LMDh programme for the 2027 FIA World Endurance Championship. The same announcement put him in the 2026 WEC with Proton Competition, driving a Ford Mustang GT3 Evo. He finished eighth in the points at Imola on his debut for the team.

How do his results compare across series?

Sargeant's record spans karting, Formula 4, Formula Renault, Formula 3, Formula 2, Formula One and sportscars. The table below summarises his main results by series, from the 2015 karting title to his current WEC programme.