Yuki Tsunoda reduce a downbeat determine after ending the Austrian Grand Prix in sixteenth and final place, with the Purple Bull driver admitting that he’s discovering it “actually, actually exhausting” to determine the explanation for his struggles within the RB21.
Qualifying had already confirmed robust for Tsunoda, who exited in Q1 after solely managing to safe P18 on the grid. From there he confronted a difficult afternoon on the Red Bull Ring, throughout which he obtained a 10-second time penalty – together with two penalty factors – for inflicting a collision with Alpine’s Franco Colapinto.
Whereas the Japanese driver prevented any additional punishments when he was investigated for allegedly forcing Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll off the monitor in one other battle, he was unable to make a lot progress by the sector and crossed the road down in P16.
Reflecting on his race after leaping out of the automobile, Tsunoda – who has completed exterior of the factors for the final 4 Grands Prix – was left looking for solutions over how he can enhance.
“To be sincere the transfer on Franco was a bit pointless,” the 25-year-old stated. “I might in all probability wait yet another lap, however that was a fairly unhealthy transfer for myself.
“In any other case the tempo itself was fairly poor as effectively – unsure what I’m doing mistaken, to be sincere. I’ve to look by tougher, however to be sincere it’s actually, actually exhausting to search out the explanation for what I’m doing so mistaken to drive this sluggish.”
With the British Grand Prix just some days away because the second cease of a double header of races, Tsunoda was quizzed on whether or not he would use the restricted time earlier than that occasion to attempt to perceive the automobile additional, or if he would as an alternative take extra of a break following a troublesome weekend.
“I’ll look by extra,” the Red Bull driver defined. “I simply have to research extra, and if I can do one thing totally different in driving model or if I can take one thing that Max [Verstappen] is doing in another way in comparison with myself, no matter it’s, I’ll strive, from left to proper, all the things, and hold enhancing.”
It was a troublesome day all-round for the Milton Keynes-based outfit, with Verstappen out of the running on Lap 1 following a collision with Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli, for which the Italian obtained a three-place grid penalty for subsequent weekend’s race at Silverstone.
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