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Sargeant, who secured his FIA superlicence over the course of the Abu Dhabi Formula 2 weekend, is expected to be officially confirmed soon as a 2023 Williams driver, and he will take part in Tuesday’s young driver test with the Grove team.
However as a favour to Williams and in order to help him gain more useful miles Alpine has offered to rent seat time in the coming months in its TPC [testing of previous cars] chassis, which has been driven this year by Oscar Piastri, Jack Doohan, Nyck de Vries and Antonio Giovinazzi.
Sargeant has already had a low-key outing in the Alpine but driving for the outfit’s car as a fully-fledged race driver for another team is an unusual step.
Although yet to be formally agreed, the planned arrangement reflects a friendly co-operation between the two teams after …