With a brief yawn, Logan Sargeant spreads down on a big sofa with an East River view. 

The 23-year-old Floridian is on a one-day media tour of New York City, so you can’t blame him for being a little drowsy. On his way to the Miami Grand Prix this weekend, he makes a brief stopover.

He laughed and continued, “I got in late last night and woke up pretty early.” “Not much time to do much of anything.”

That’s the life of a Formula 1 driver; they usually traverse the world nonstop. Sargeant has traveled the globe since the beginning of his rookie season last year, taking in the highs and lows of the game.

Positively, he became the first American driver to win points in the championship in thirty years with a top-10 finish at the US Grand Prix in Austin last year. The drawback was that he was forced to withdraw from the Qatar Grand Prix the previous year due to heat exhaustion, almost passing out. Additionally, Williams Racing, his team, has not yet earned a point in the 2024 season.

“It hasn’t been the smoothest, but there’s been plenty of flashes of positives,” Sargeant stated. “We just need to get rid of the negative stuff, and it’ll start coming to us.”

Sargeant is hoping that this weekend’s Miami Grand Prix, which is being hosted practically in his backyard, will bring success to his team. The Florida native was born and raised in Fort Lauderdale, which is conveniently close to the Miami International Autodrome, a racetrack built inside and around Miami Gardens’ Hard Rock Stadium.

Unsurprisingly, Sargeant’s phone has been inundated with messages requesting tickets for the entire week.

“I do my best to get as many as I can,” stated the man. “It’s nice to be able to have that extra support there.”

Sargeant spoke with Business Insider about the race this weekend, how he overcame hardship in his second season, and Formula 1’s ongoing popularity in the US.