At Sunday’s Miami Grand Prix, Logan Sargeant will be the first American to race on U.S. soil since Alexander Rossi in 2015. There have been just four U.S.-born drivers in F1 in the past 30 years.
IndyCar driver Colton Herta was expected to end the most recent American drought ahead of this season, but he stumbled at the final hurdle: the super license points system. Drivers must earn a “super license” from the FIA, Formula One’s governing body; that license is earned by accumulating points along the path to F1 — among other requirements.
“It’s very difficult,” Rossi said of the path to F1. “It’s not that Americans don’t have the skills or the ability. It takes a lot for a driver and a family to make that sacrifice to go over to Europe and kind of start a new life. In the past 20 years, it’s been Scott, myself and now Logan, right? So there’s been a lot of failures in that time period.”
In October, former Williams team principal Jost Capito said the team would promote Sargeant from its academy ahead of the 2023 season if he obtained the necessary super license points. That required Sargeant to earn a strong finish in the final race of the 2022 F2 season, and he did, clinching the necessary points with a fourth-place finish in the final standings.. “A great opportunity to represent my country to the best of my ability.
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