Sargeant picks permanent race number for rookie F1 season

Sargeant will make his F1 debut next year for Williams, replacing Nicholas Latifi after securing enough superlicence points through his rookie Formula 2 season to make the step up.

Williams has now revealed that Sargeant will race with #2 as his permanent number in F1, becoming the second driver to use it since the system was introduced in 2014.

The team made the announcement in a short social post on its channels on Wednesday with the hashtag #LS2.

Sargeant was…