AlphaTauri Honda’s Yuki Tsunoda believes they must be “sick” of themselves after racing with both Mercedes cars in the last two Grand Prix races.
Yuki Tsunoda held down Lewis Hamilton’s defensive drive to the 8th lap when he was forced to start from the 11th grid due to an engine replacement penalty at the F1 Turkish Grand Prix.
At the F1 US Grand Prix, Yuki Tsunoda, who lined up on the 10th grid with soft tires different from his rivals, overtook Valtteri Bottas, who also started from 9th place due to an engine penalty, on the opening lap and stayed before the beginning of the second stint. Rarely.
“Mercedes must be tired,” said Yuki Tsunoda, who is working with Max Verstappen and Red Bull Honda to win the title as Honda F1 training drivers.
“I don’t want any driver to be easily pulled out. I just did the right thing, the normal thing. I used the tires, but I enjoyed the battle.”
Jody Egginton, technical director of AlphaTauri Honda F1, is pleased with the recent formula of Yuki Tsunoda. Yuki Tsunoda finished in 9th place, the first point after the summer vacation, at the F1 United States Grand Prix, which was a one-car battle due to Pierre Guthrie’s retirement.
“Recently, the car has been making good progress with Yuki,” Jody Egginton explained why Yuki Tsunoda passed the qualifying with soft tires.
“He’s regaining a little confidence. It’s important that we take him to the top of the grid and give him confidence as much as possible.”
“If we went to medium tires, he might have finished qualifying outside the top ten. He could have chosen a free tire. It’s fair enough, but we said,’He Let’s put it in the top 10 ”
“I knew Pierre was there too, so the idea was,’Let’s put Pierre in medium and Yuuki in soft and line up there.'”
“If he passed the qualifying in 15th or 16th place, it would be much more difficult. It was a risk. It would have been difficult to get him through in medium in Q2. Settle in 11th or 12th place, or He was either in the top 10 with options (soft). ”
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