Yuki Tsunoda has claimed the whole lot goes towards him, following additional hardship on the Las Vegas Grand Prix amid a tricky Formulation 1 season.
Tsunoda certified nineteenth after Crimson Bull made a mistake together with his tyre pressures in qualifying, and the group determined to breach parc ferme to tweak his set-up and provides him a brand new energy unit for the race.
Ranging from the pitlane, the Japanese racer pitted on the primary lap and switched from the medium to the onerous compound, however that was shortly earlier than the race was neutralised by the digital security automobile, which two of his rivals took benefit of.
Tsunoda ended up certainly one of only a few drivers on a two-stop technique, which didn’t repay as he completed a lowly 14th – which was twelfth when the McLarens had been disqualified.
The Crimson Bull driver wasn’t even glad with the set-up tweaks to his RB21, and clearly looks like he can’t catch a break.
“The factor is, the protection automobile got here in proper after I pitted, so it isn’t best. What we had been making an attempt to attain with that was making an attempt to get off soiled air, however the security automobile got here in and a number of folks simply rejoined the observe in entrance of me, so there have been no factors,” Tsunoda mentioned within the post-race media pen, although he nonetheless beat each of his direct rivals who pitted then, and ended up 16 seconds away from the factors regardless; his deficit to tenth was 28 seconds earlier than the McLarens had been disqualified.
Yuki Tsunoda, Crimson Bull Racing
Photograph by: Cristobal Herrera-Ulashkevich / through Getty Photos
“It looks like the whole lot to date goes towards me, the luck and the whole lot,” he lamented. “I do not just like the phrase luck, however this weekend feels prefer it’s actually dangerous luck. It is a disgrace and irritating that I wasn’t in a position to make use of my tempo till qualifying. Simply throwing it away.”
Though there may be little proof backs it up, Tsunoda reckoned he would have been “near the factors” with out the digital security automobile. “I misplaced a lot time with that,” he claimed, earlier than he was in a position to evaluate the race.
Tsunoda was struggling to seek out any positives after such a dismal weekend, which left him down in seventeenth within the drivers’ standings as team-mate Max Verstappen’s title bid comes alive with one more victory.
“At the very least we modified the engine; one thing to stay up for for the following few grands prix,” Tsunoda added.
Requested by Motorsport if that was a profit for the final two rounds, he replied: “I hope so. I believe it is performing higher than what we had been seeing earlier than. We’ve to qualify correctly, nevertheless it looks like it.”
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