Yuki Tsunoda revealed he misheard a radio message warning a few unfastened mirror on the observe throughout the Qatar Grand Prix and thought he’d been advised there was a beaver.
The RB driver endured a irritating afternoon on the Losail Worldwide Circuit as he slipped down the order after a great opening lap to complete thirteenth following a failed gamble to run gentle tyres within the closing phases.
However talking afterwards, he admitted to some confusion involving a mid-race message from his pitwall about what proved to be the unfastened mirror from Alex Albon.
Requested by Motorsport.com if he had seen the mirror, Tsunoda stated: “Was it mirror? I heard beaver.
“My engineers stated: ‘There is a beaver.’ However why is there a beaver within the Center East? Like how is it potential a beaver is within the Center East?
“However okay, possibly there is a shock with world warming – kicking lots of fascinating issues within the Earth.”
Pink Bull boss Christian Horner joked afterwards concerning the distinction between listening to mirror and beaver: “That’s fairly a change….”
Tsunoda admitted that he had not seen the mirror, however felt that the double yellows which had been introduced out due to it weren’t being noticed by all drivers.
Yuki Tsunoda, RB F1 Group VCARB 01, Kevin Magnussen, Haas VF-24
Photograph by: Steven Tee / Motorsport Photographs
McLaren’s Lando Norris was given a 10s stop-go penalty, for which he accepted fault after ending tenth within the race.
“There was the double yellow and a few vehicles behind did not actually comply with it,” he stated.
“So we’ve got to revise that within the subsequent drivers’ briefing that some driver does respect it, and a few driver does not respect it. That is very unfair.”
Lack of race tempo
Tsunoda felt like a sitting duck for a lot of the race as he discovered himself swallowed up by rivals, having briefly received into the highest 10 early on. The Japanese driver stated he had by no means skilled such a nasty race tempo earlier than.
“Yeah, I had a great begin as effectively and I used to be P9, in a position to overtake [Fernando] Alonso as effectively after the security automobile,” he stated.
“However I by no means had like that a lot of a nasty tempo. I simply gave it every little thing, you realize, I used to be not even managing the tyres.
“In Qatar, usually it is arduous to overhaul with the automobile behind, and it looks like lots of vehicles [found it] fairly simple to overhaul me. Simply typically an absence of tempo, and it is not even small.”
Tsunoda’s team-mate Liam Lawson completed 14th after a spin whereas battling Valtteri Bottas.
Images from Qatar GP Race
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