Yuki Tsunoda is on a mission to shut the Method 1 expertise hole between himself and team-mate Max Verstappen.
The recently-promoted Purple Bull driver stated the RB21 is especially difficult to drive with out prior expertise, which provides Verstappen a significant benefit.
“I’m fairly proud of my confidence stage contemplating we’re solely two races in, however I am making an attempt to grasp how this automobile operates … [because] I am not totally understanding even half of it but,” Tsunoda informed reporters in Jeddah on Thursday.
The Japanese driver has set practical short-term objectives for himself, however is assured he may problem the four-time world champion if he had the identical stage of confidence behind the wheel.
“I do know that I am unable to beat him right away, so I am simply making an attempt to construct baseline and watch for the moments that I may be in [good] form,” Tsunoda stated.
“It comes right down to the expertise actually, this automobile behaves fairly otherwise at every monitor so it’s exhausting to foretell.
Yuki Tsunoda, Purple Bull Racing
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“Max understands it fairly nicely and the engineers perceive it from their expertise at earlier grands prix. So, they will clarify it to me in phrases, however I do not perceive precisely what that looks like within the automobile.
“I simply should take time and construct it up. After I unlock that space, I’d in all probability be capable of beat him.”
Within the meantime, Tsunoda admitted he nonetheless has loads to be taught after spending 4 years at Purple Bull’s junior crew.
“I’m not totally stress-free driving this automobile – I’m nonetheless dashing and never totally in management but,” he stated.
“I understand how Max builds his confidence all through the week in comparison with how I construct confidence and it is fully completely different. He can really feel greater than I can within the automobile and he has a lot confidence in it.”
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