Sargeant honest: "Just mentally draining rather than super challenging"

In front of GPblog, Sargeant was asked in Belgium about how much pressure he puts on himself to score points? "I've put an insane amount of pressure on myself. It's been mentally challenging in a way of how many things need to be done and not having much time away from it to reset. It's just mentally draining rather than super challenging. It's slightly different."

Sargeant expects a lot from himself

As number four in last season's Formula 2 championship, there were some doubts prior to the season. After all, is Sargeant good enough, or is Williams giving its own junior a chance this year because there are simply no other (attractive) drivers available to take a seat in the FW45 in 2023?

"From a pressure standpoint, obviously I have high self-expectations. I want to drive well. I've been frustrated with myself plenty of times this year when I haven't done what I could have done. That's what it comes down to," he explains. "It's me expecting to get the most out of myself. At times I feel like I've just missed the mark on that a few times. It's about cleaning that up, stringing it together better, executing better. I feel like that's the next step because I feel like I now have the pieces to do it all."

Goal for after the summer break

With 22 races on the calendar, Sargeant still has 13 (including three sprint races) chances to finish once in the top-ten and grab his first point(s). Sargeant states that of at least x number of points, he has no goal in the second half of the season. "I don't really have necessarily a set target. I think for me it comes back to feeling as if I've extracted everything on a weekend. We don't always have a car to score points. So that aside, it just has to come down to me feeling like I've done everything I could, got everything out of it, start stringing things together better and wherever that leaves me, it leaves me. But that would be what I consider a success on a weekend."