Explained: Why Williams opted against Mick Schumacher or Liam Lawson
Reveaꦛling how close Mick Schumacher and Liam Lawson came t🌳o Williams opportunity

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Williams ignored Mick Schumacher and Liam Lawson for their midseason 𒉰driver change.
Logan Sargeant has been axed from his F1 seat, between last weekend’s Dutch Grand Prixꦦ and this weekend’s round at Monza.
Franco Colapinto, from Williams♕ driver academy, has got 🐼the nod to replace Sargeant as a full-time driver, alongside Alex Albon, for the rest of 2024.
Mercedes and Red Bull had put forward drivers from their own environm🍌ents as suggestions ♍to replace Sargeant.
“I would very much hope that Mick gets the chance💮, because we haven’t seen the real Mick,” said Mercedes bos🐻s Toto Wolff about their third driver.
Red Bull’s Christian Horner 𒉰said about their reserve driver Lawson: “If they needed a driver next weekend, we’d be open to that.”
Williams boss Ja🌃mes Vowles ran out of patience with Sargeant after his costly c✤rash on Saturday at Zandvoort. His wrecked car could not be repaired in time for qualifying.
reports.The opportunity which eventually fell to Colapinto is for only nine races, because Will💎iams hav♔e Albon and Carlos Sainz contracted for next year.
Why didn’t Williams pick Schumacher?
Schumacher was “never a frontrunner” to claim the last-gasp race drive with Williams, the same repo♐rt states.
The relationship between Mercedes’ Wolff and ex-colle🔴ague Vowles might have smoothed ovꦜer a return to the F1 grid for Schumacher, but instead Williams overlooked him.
Schumacher lost his Haas seat at the end of 2022 and has spent two seasons without aᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ drive.
Last week, Alpine’s confirmation that they had chosen rookie Jack Do🍃ohan for their 2025 car was a major blow for the hopeful Schumacher.
He has now seen the possibility of nine races with Wil☂liams vanish.
The♔ vacancy at Sauber - which will evolve into Audi - may still interest Schumacher, not least because of his German links to th𒅌e mighty manufacturer.
Why didn’t Williams pick Lawson?
Lawson “wasn’t a possibility” due to the terms with which Red Bull were willing to loan him out, F1.com sᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚtates.
Red Bull weren’t keen on ▨letting Lawson go because he remains an option for them in 2024. Sergio Perez and RB’s Daniel Ricciardo remain under scrutiny.
It “wasn’t an option”🔴 for Red Bull to let Williams have Lawson for the rest of 2024 because it would weaken their own ranks.
Williams did not want to strike aᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ dea꧟l which would have allowed Red Bull to take him back later this year, the same report claims.
Law💫son’s future was a hot topic last weekend when Helmut Marko seemingly claimed that he was guaranteed a 2025 rac🐼e drive within Red Bull or RB.
Horner later clarified that Marko meant a race drive on the F1 grid💜, not specifically with either of thei💎r teams.
But, the door to Williams has slammed shut.

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to footba𒁏ll, to F1.