“Logan, it’s James”: Mercedes Powerbroker Takes Charge at Williams as F1 World Does Spicy Foreshadowing About Logan Sargeant & Alex Albon

If you are among those who believe the 2022/23 silly season has been the most exciting, you are not far off. Apart from the driver shuffling, a few teams also brought the team principal role into the mix. Williams took part in both aspects of the silly season, with Logan Sargeant occupying the driving seat and James Vowles occupying the management seat. However, given the latter’s history, fans predict an intriguing and little concerning future for Sargeant and Alex Albon.

The former Mercedes chief strategist got promoted after serving at the Brackley-based outfit for over a decade. From chief strategist to team principal, it is a significant jump for Vowles at Williams. Especially because Williams has been struggling with performance for quite some time. However, even before Vowles tackles his first race at the helm at Williams, the fans are making a fiery prediction.

The fans are making the prediction based on Vowles’s history. For the unaware, during his time at Mercedes, Vowles was often the bearer of bad news. His phrase, “Valtteri, it’s James” became synonymous with a dreadful follow-up for the former Mercedes driver.

Vowles often asked or instructed Bottas to let Lewis Hamilton pass him in the race to give the latter an advantage. This instruction more often than not resulted in a race win for Hamilton. This is a difficult ask for any strategist, however, Vowles made it seem easy.

So keeping Vowles’ history in mind, when Willaims officially welcomed the new boss on Instagram, all fans jumped to one conclusion.

Fans predict a spicy future for Logan Sargeant and Alex Albon with the new boss James Vowles

The conclusion? It could be a spicy yet tumultuous future for both Logan Sargeant and Alex Albon. Sargeant is burdened with the weight of expectations of the American fans and he will go against his old foe Oscar Piastri as a rookie. With all this pressure, it will be horrible if Sargeant gets similar instructions as Bottas from Vowles.

Although, this is exactly what the fans are predicting in the comments section.

“Logan it’s James…”

“Hi Williams, it’s James…”

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“Logan its James. Let Alex by”

“Logan, it’s James”

“Lewis it’s James, let Albon through”

“Alex this is James…”

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“Get William’s competitive and back to the top James!”

“He’s the most clever person in F1 world. “In James we trust””

We can see the fans are well aware of Vowles’ history. Although only time will tell if the new team principal will bring the same principles to Willams.