The bias was unexpectedly despatched totally to the entrance, inflicting the American driver to lock up and slide right into a run-off space.
After initially believing that he must retire, Sargeant was capable of drive again to the pits, and he resumed after swapping to a brand new steering wheel.
The change appeared to handle the issue, and he ultimately completed a distant twentieth.
“With Logan, now we have an uncommanded brake bias motion all the best way to the entrance, which is why he went off,” Vowles advised Motorsport.com. “The brake bias moved nowhere close to the place he requested it to be.”
Sargeant admitted that he could not comprehend what was occurring when he first had the difficulty.
“It was simply doing issues by itself with out my asking,” he mentioned. “I do not utterly perceive it from my facet.
“We have had some digital points the final couple of days, qualifying after which at the moment. So we simply want to grasp the core challenge. We thought we fastened it, however clearly it got here again.
“It did not occur once more, as soon as we modified the steering wheel, so possibly it is one thing there. However we simply want to grasp the core trigger for it, and attempt to not let it occur once more.”
As well as, each Sargeant and his team-mate Alex Albon needed to take care of surprising energy unit temperature issues through the race, which Vowles insisted disguised “a a lot sooner automobile.”
Having certified thirteenth, Albon was advised that his Mercedes engine was operating too scorching nearly from the beginning of the race, an issue that was shared by the works vehicles however not by fellow HPP prospects Aston Martin and McLaren.
Alex Albon, Williams FW46
Photograph by: Sam Bloxham / Motorsport Pictures
Albon needed to not solely handle the difficulty but in addition needed to take care of the distraction of a high-temperature warning that dominated his dashboard, making it more durable for him to undertake any changes that have been requested by the pitwall.
He ultimately completed fifteenth, however Vowles is adamant that with a clear race, Albon might have led the chase of the highest 5 groups that dominated the factors positions.
“I do know that now we have a a lot sooner automobile than that,” he mentioned. “The fortune is simply – and I should not be pondering this manner – in the truth that our direct rivals did not rating factors both. So it turned a nullified race by way of circumstance.
“There have been many issues that simply weren’t in the fitting place. At the start, you’d have seen that we have been struggling with engine temperatures from lap 2.
“That is uncommon. You’ll be able to typically have engine temperature points, however usually manifest themselves somewhat bit later than that. We have to get on high of understanding that, that was very, very expensive.
“So that you did not see what we are able to carry out with. I feel the sector may be very tight. I feel now we have the potential to be P11. However to not be within the factors, to be clear. We’ve got work to do to get there.”
Albon admitted that it was exhausting to attract too many conclusions from his tempo within the race, given the compromises, however he conceded that there was some promise.
“I feel the one stint you possibly can truly take from our race was the primary stint, form of, by which we truly confirmed fairly good tempo,” he mentioned when requested by Motorsport.com if he had realized something.
“I felt like I might lengthen my stint fairly properly. And the ultimate stint I used to be in clear air, however the whole lot else was simply driving round a second slower than I ought to have been.”
