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As he sat in a high-rise building in New York City overlooking the East River, Logan Sargeant was on his phone fielding text messages and calls.
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of people from his home area of south Florida asking him if he can try to get tickets to this weekend's Miami Grand Prix.
'Little do they know I get like, no tickets,' Sargeant says with a laugh before adding that he tries to hand out 'as many as I can'.
Sargeant, a Fort Lauderdale native, is back in his own backyard for his second crack at success around the Hard Rock Stadium.
Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com, Sargeant described his approach to the race, his struggles with Williams to start the season, and his hopes for the rest of the campaign.
Logan Sargeant is ready for a return to his home state of Florida for the Miami Grand Prix
The Williams man described his mood going into the weekend as, 'relatively relaxed, excited to be racing at home again.'
He continued: 'I think looking at it from a performance standpoint, it's been not the easiest start of the year for the team. I don't think we've really executed a clean weekend as a whole yet. So that has to be the approach going to the weekend.
'I feel like if we do that, it'll put us in a decent position. Whether it's enough to score points or not, I'm not sure, but that has to be the target.'
He'll be looking for some better success after qualifying and finishing dead last in last year's edition of the Miami Grand Prix.
'I think last year didn't go according to plan. I genuinely think this track should suit our car a little bit better,' Sargeant believes.
'So hopefully that gives us an opportunity... Obviously, I've had good moments racing in America, the race in Austin, qualifying in Vegas.'
Sargeant, who scored points at the Circuit of the Americas last year, hopes to repeat that feat 'in front of family and friends, all the people that are texting me, trying to get tickets to the race.
'That would be amazing and definitely a special moment to do the full loop and come back and score points.'
Sargeant and Williams Racing have had a rocky start to the year with no points picked up
Sargeant believes this year's car will be better suited to the Miami International Autodrome
While Sargeant says there's always stress and that 'pressure doesn't really go [away]' in a Formula One race, he believes his second time around the Miami International Autodrome will be more successful than his first one.
'You have a bit more of a sense of comfort knowing the track than not knowing it. It's always a big learning curve when you go to a track for the first time.
'But I think the big thing is this week is a sprint, which will make things a little bit more challenging, make it more important that myself and the engineer has got the set up right going into the weekend as you have very limited time to change anything.
'So yeah, fingers crossed. But we'll have to wait and see... [we] just need to find our feet quickly.'
Sargeant has not found his feet yet this season. Neither has his team. Williams are one of three teams yet to score a single point this campaign.
Teammate Alex Albon has gotten close three times - with two P11 finishes and a P12 finish in the most recent race in China. Meanwhile, Sargeant's best finish was P14 in Saudi Arabia.
'I don't think anyone's particularly happy with how everything's unfolded to start the year,' he
